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Envisioning the Word: The Use of Visual Images in Preaching is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this one-volume resource kit, Jensen helps preachers use visual images creatively and responsibly. How, how much, when, what equipment, use of teams, relationship to exegesis, different varieties of images, sources—all the essential topics and concerns are addressed here. Jensen first discusses how vital, if controversial, image making has always been in Christian tradition and then...

• Propositions are the main points of the sermon. Ideas reign! Garrison Keillor once said that literate preachers take a biblical story, stick the story in a corner, and give a lecture on the story. He said this in answer to the question, “Why do you say that sermons are boring?” • Sermons are analytical in nature. This grows out of the practice of an analytical approach to Scripture. • Literate sermons involve left-brain communication. • They use metaphors of illustration, as defined in the previous
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