Shaping the Claim: Moving from Text to Sermon

by Marvin A. McMickle (Editor)

Shaping the Claim helps the preacherdiscover the core of the message to bepreached - the sermonic "claim." In order to be effective, says McMickle,a sermon needs to address the hearersat three distinct levels; the head orthe intellect, the heart or passionand conviction, and the hand or anexpected and desired response. In orderto discover the biblical "claim" that asermon should make upon a particularcongregation at a particular time,McMickle presents a helpful three-step (1) What? (2) So What? and (3)Now What?

Genres: Christianity

96 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2008

Reviews

[Rev. Linda · Rating 5 out of 5]

A Seminary Instructor/Preacher friend recommended the "Elements of Preaching" series of eight books to add to my preaching ideas--this book had some marvelous ideas that fit well into my belief from my training years of "knowing your audience" -- Looking forward to digesting the other seven books in the series. ----- From the publisher: Shaping the Claim helps the preacher discover the core of the message to be preached - the sermonic "claim." In order to be effective, says McMickle, a sermon needs to address the hearers at three distinct levels; the head or the intellect, the heart or passion and conviction, and the hand or an expected and desired response. In order to discover the biblical "claim" that a sermon should make upon a particular congregation at a particular time, McMickle presents a helpful three-step process: (1) What? (2) So What? and (3) Now What? The book is keyed to online sermon samples and other Web-based features such as sermon illustrations and art

[Naomi · Rating 5 out of 5]

A really fine introductory text to homiletics and a nice reminder to more experienced preachers about good practices in preaching. For those who aren't using Biblical texts, this is still a worthy book from one of the finest English-language preachers today.

[Rebecca · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fairly basic, but a decent primer for beginners and helpful reminder for the rest of us.

[Renita Weems · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very helpful. McMickle always provide thoughtful and meaningful suggestions to the preaching enterprise.

[Kelly · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was far and away the best of the t books we were assigned in this series. The use of logos, pathos, and ethos to examine sermon writing is very informative and makes me excited to sermon prep.

[J Thomas]

Excellent review of the essentials of the person/personhood of sermon preparation. Having had Dr. McMickle as a professor for numerous courses in seminary it was written in such a way that Dr. McMickle seemed to be reading it personally to you.