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The Sermon: Its Homiletical Construction is unavailable, but you can change that!

Seminaries, teachers and students of preaching, as well as preachers in the active ministry are always on the alert for books to guide them in the construction of effective sermons. This is a book specifically designed to do this very thing. About the Author Richard Charles Henry Lenski was born in 1864 in Greifenberg, Prussia, Germany. He came to America in 1873. He received his education at...

We may arrive at what a text really is, and should be, by studying the etymology of the word. “Text” is derived from textus, genitive textus, a web. The verb is texo, texui, texere, to weave. Etymologically a text is that section of Scripture which is woven into the sermon. Dropping the figure, a text is that section of Scripture upon which the sermon is built. There is a connotation in this idea of a text. The portion of Scripture that is fit to be used as a text must be one that forms a unit in
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