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CM210 Preaching Biblical Narrative is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this course Dr. J. Kent Edwards helps you make the stories of the Bible come alive for your congregation. Most of the Bible is comprised of narrative—of stories about God working in and through people. These stories can be confusing and can be a challenge to communicate to a congregation from the pulpit. This course begins by explaining why it’s important to preach through the biblical...

It’s called the curse of knowledge because the more you know, the more you’re tempted to say. You’ve got to resist the temptation to say everything you know about a narrative passage. Strip away all that is unnecessary. Instead, only tell me what will help me understand the single main idea. Our job as preachers will be to assert with crystal clarity the main idea that all the details of the text are pointing to. Don’t tell me everything you know. Tell me everything that will be helpful for me to