Transforming Preaching - Using visual images
Transforming Preaching - Using visual images
by SPCK - David Heywood
3 A step-by-step guide to sermon preparation Using visual images The first two vital ingredients in any sermon are the message and the structure, deciding what God is calling you to say and planning how you want to say it. The third ingredient provides the vital spark that makes
Transforming Preaching - The elements of structure
Transforming Preaching - The elements of structure
by SPCK - David Heywood
3 A step-by-step guide to sermon preparation The elements of structure The first stage in sermon preparation is getting the message: knowing what you want to say. The next is deciding how best to say it: giving your sermon a structure. Once you reach the point of discerning the m
Transforming Preaching - Language to listen to
Transforming Preaching - Language to listen to
by SPCK - David Heywood
3 A step-by-step guide to sermon preparation Language to listen to A sermon is a spoken event. The ‘sermon’ is not the script, even where that script is available to take away and read, but the event in which the sermon is delivered and the congregation responds. That event takes
Transforming Preaching - The sermon as a learning event
Transforming Preaching - The sermon as a learning event
by SPCK - David Heywood
2 The sermon as a learning event To change is to learn. A process of transformation is therefore a process of learning. In the previous chapter I suggested that the goal of preaching is transformation. Transformation involves people taking in new information, coming to see the wo
Transforming Preaching - About the author
Transforming Preaching - About the author
by SPCK - David Heywood
About the author David Heywood is Director of Pastoral Studies at Ripon College Cuddesdon. He has served in parish ministry in Gloucestershire, south London and the Potteries. Before ordination, he trained as a teacher and taught for three years in Luton, Bedfordshire. He has a d
Online Mission and Ministry - Online discipleship and spirituality
Online Mission and Ministry - Online discipleship and spirituality
by SPCK - Pam Smith
Online discipleship and spirituality Jesus said that where two or three are gathered in his name, he will be present. Many of us have found that this promise holds good online. Perhaps the very lack of physical presence, and the time it takes to respond to each other in writing,
Online Mission and Ministry - Theological understandings
Online Mission and Ministry - Theological understandings
by SPCK - Pam Smith
Theological understandings Christians who become actively involved in online ministry can usually articulate a clear sense of being called by God to mission in the context of digital space. Of course, the personal conviction of being called to a particular role does not, in itsel
Online Mission and Ministry - Where do I start?
Online Mission and Ministry - Where do I start?
by SPCK - Pam Smith
Where do I start? The old saying that it takes years to become an overnight success applies just as much to developing an online presence as to any other activity. There is no single, sure-fire way to develop an online presence – our methodology will vary according to our own per
Online Mission and Ministry - Pastoral care and relationships
Online Mission and Ministry - Pastoral care and relationships
by SPCK - Pam Smith
Pastoral care and relationships ‘Pastoral care’ in a Christian context means supporting and caring for people who are undergoing problems and crises such as illness, unemployment, loneliness or bereavement through practical help, listening and friendship. The word ‘pastoral’ rela
Four Gospels, One Jesus - Annotated Suggestions for Further Reading
Four Gospels, One Jesus - Annotated Suggestions for Further Reading
by SPCK - Richard A Burridge
Annotated Suggestions for Further Reading CHAPTER 1: FOUR GOSPELS On gospel criticism Richard A. Burridge, What are the Gospels? A Comparison with Graeco-Roman Biography, SNTS Monograph Series 70 (Cambridge University Press, 1992; revised second edition, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2
Four Gospels, One Jesus - Jerusalem - the lion's lair or robber's den?
Four Gospels, One Jesus - Jerusalem - the lion's lair or robber's den?
by SPCK - Richard A Burridge
Jerusalem – the lion’s lair or robbers’ den? The Temple, Mark 11—13 Mark’s gospel is like a symphony in three movements: we rushed through the first half in a flurry of activity, power and conflict, healings and exorcisms (1—8.26); the second movement was an interlude at a slower
Transforming Preaching - The word of God
Transforming Preaching - The word of God
by SPCK - David Heywood
1 Why preach? The word of God Written words, spoken words Since the invention of the printing press over 500 years ago the printed word has been the world’s dominant form of communication. Once the privilege of a few, reading and writing have become a universal gateway to a world
Transforming Preaching - A step-by-step guide to sermon preparation
Transforming Preaching - A step-by-step guide to sermon preparation
by SPCK - David Heywood
3 A step-by-step guide to sermon preparation If you want to bake a cake, you need to include certain basic ingredients. You can vary the amounts and there is a huge variety of other things you can add to make cakes of many different kinds. But without the basics, you don’t have a
Transforming Preaching - Learning through reflection
Transforming Preaching - Learning through reflection
by SPCK - David Heywood
2 The sermon as a learning event Preaching for learning If our ministry of preaching is to be effective we need to do at least two things: to understand the role of sermons in the context of the learning that is already taking place in our congregations through reflection; and to
Transforming Preaching - Remembering
Transforming Preaching - Remembering
by SPCK - David Heywood
2 The sermon as a learning event Remembering Since both listening and memory are elements in the way our minds work to take in, store and use information, remembering shares many characteristics with listening. Like listening, it is an active process, deeply affected by our value
Transforming Preaching - Learning