A Short Course in Preaching: Daily Reading as the Seedbed of Sermons

by Timothy Matthew Slemmons, Heinrich Bullinger

A translator of neglected Reformers, an advocate for Kierkegaardian epistemology and lectionary expansion, and an occasional recording artist, Tim Slemmons has been teaching preaching and studying its moments of reformation and renewal for nearly a quarter century. Here, in A Short Course in Preaching, he shares his simple, practical approach to generating sermon ideas from daily scripture reading and devotional journaling, which can directly yield the seeds of sermons, budding both their content and form. Offered for the instruction and encouragement of a rising corps of lay preachers, this briskly written rundown on his long-tested pedagogical approach takes its place in solidarity with other useful guides by Keller, Begg, Helm, Quicke, Hansen, and others. For added value, Slemmons includes here a "second short course," one of his own sermons on preaching, and in order to aid the preacher in testing the sermon's doctrinal claims, the first ever English translation of Heinrich Bullinger's summaries of the ten articles in his 1556 Summa , a doubly compacted distillation of the great Reformer's famous catechetical sermon series known as the Decades .

106 pages, Paperback

Published June 30, 2023