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Knowing the Context: Frames, Tools, and Signs for Preaching is unavailable, but you can change that!

While everyone might affirm that preaching needs to engage its listeners deeply, the initial move for novice preachers is to think this can be attained by livelier content and delivery of the sermon. All too quickly, however, one learns that there are many factors beyond what a preacher says and how she or he may say it that affect whether proclamation can actually be heard. Effective preaching...

that can reshape our lives even now. Precisely by paying attention to times and seasons, preaching therefore engages the context in order to challenge its assumed normalcy and envision life-giving alternatives. Second, preaching is situational. Despite our ambitions, any sermon operates with only a limited direct reach. This is because its “placement” seeps through in language and structure, enabling us easily to perceive its intended hearers. No wonder preachers soon learn how deadly it is to repeat
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