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The Homiletical Beat: Why All Sermons Are Narrative is unavailable, but you can change that!

Promoting the idea of sermon as narrative, Eugene Lowry's first book, The Homiletical Plot, became one of the most influential preaching books of the latter part of the 20th century. While the sermon as narrative has become conventional preaching wisdom, it is largely misunderstood. Sermons are, by definition, narratives and as such, they have plots. At the same time, the sermon is not a...

When I use the term narrative sermon or narrative preaching normatively, I refer to the arrangement of ideas that takes the form of a homiletical plot. Now, obviously, a parable of Jesus is a narrative or story. Such a story is easily formed into a narrative sermon. One can also take a text that is not itself in narrative form and yet strategically move it into effective narrative homiletical shape—a plot form. I am talking about the arrangement of ideas that happens by means of the human voice,
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