If there is one thing I love, it is preaching and teaching! I love to communicate the word of God in a way that people can easily understand and that will inspire them in their relationship with God, and their commitment to the church and to God’s Kingdom. In the process, I want to make sure I will always do justice to the ancient context of the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament.
Our Hilversum congregation asked me to develop a training. So that’s what I did! We ended up including up and coming speakers from our Huizen and Almere congregations as well.
These are the sessions – you can find the presentation in PDF and the videos below. Please comment if this training has blessed you! All sessions are bilingual, English-Dutch!
- Session 1 – introduction: the purpose of preaching and the lifestyle of the preacher (35 minutes)
- Session 2 – connect your message with the church’s vision (15 minutes)
- Session 3 – connect your message with the metanarrative of the Bible (22 minutes)
- Session 4 – Biblical literary genres & what is a / the gospel? (41 minutes)
- Session 5 – exegesis versus eisegesis: what are you reading in(to) the text? (18 minutes)
- Session 6 – your tools as you prepare (28 minutes)
- Session 7 – sermon structure: how do you take off and land the plane? (16 minutes)
- Session 8 – sermon preparation (23 minutes)
- Session 9 – your delivery (14 minutes)
This is the PDF of the presentation that I used. Below are the videos:
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