Episode 8

“The pulpit calls them to it as the sea calls its sailors, and, like the sea, it batters and bruises and does not rest, but always there is the lure of its ‘better and incomparable’ society. To preach, to really preach, is to die naked a little at a time, and to know each time you do it that you must do it again.”

-Bruce Thielemann, Wittenburg Door, April 1977

Homiletics is the academic discipline of how words work so that God’s wisdom can be heard and applied. The first preaching class I took in 1978 opened a world for me to participate in the wonderful world of preaching & teaching.

Here are sample topics covered:

• Illustration is not application
• Meet Jim Engels
• Make moves, not points
• Compelling conclusions
• Closet work
• Funeral sermons