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The Homiletical Plot, Expanded Edition: The Sermon as Narrative Art Form is unavailable, but you can change that!

Now in reissue with a new foreword by Fred B. Craddock and afterword by the author, Eugene L. Lowry, The Homiletical Plot, Expanded Edition follows in the same solid tradition of its predecessor. Upon its release, The Homiletical Plot quickly became a pivotal work on the art of preaching. Instead of comments on a biblical passage, Lowry suggested that the sermon follow a narrative form that moves...

traditional instructions. In the midst of feeling guilty about my new style of forming sermons I began to ask if perhaps the problem was not so much my deviations but rather the instructions, the theories themselves. Apparently others have had the same experience. Craddock notes that sometimes preachers who have prepared outlines for sermons will depart from them during the actual preaching experiences: Some have even felt guilty about the departure, feeling they had ceased preaching and had begun
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