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Christ-Centered Preaching:
Preparation and Delivery of Sermons

Course Description
Dr. Bryan Chapell explores the unifying principle of grace that binds all Scripture together. He outlines and demonstrates the principles and practice of sermon crafting and delivery to illuminate the message of grace in each passage, and to submit it to God's Spirit for the transformation of lives through preaching.

Instructors: Dr. Bryan Chapell and Dr. Zack Eswine

Course Contents
Course audio files are in MP3 format.
Study Guides are in PDF format.

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MP3 Lectures & Resource List (numbered items are the course lectures)	Lecture Transcript	Study Guide
Course Information		PDF
1. Word & Witness	PDF HTML	PDF
2. What's the Big Idea?	PDF HTML	PDF
3. Text Selection & Interpretation	PDF HTML	PDF
4. The Road from Text to Sermon	PDF HTML	PDF
5. Outlining & Arrangement	PDF HTML	PDF
6A. Propositions & Main Points	PDF HTML	PDF
6B. Workshop on Homiletical Outlines	not applicable	PDF
7. Introductions	PDF HTML	PDF
8A. Exposition	PDF HTML	PDF
8B. Workshop on Sermon Introductions	not applicable	not applicable
9. Sermon Divisions & Development	PDF HTML	PDF
10. Conclusions	PDF HTML	PDF
11. Classification of Messages	PDF HTML	PDF
12. Explanation	PDF HTML	PDF
13. Why to Illustrate	PDF HTML	PDF
14A. How to Illustrate	PDF HTML	PDF
14B. How to Illustrate (continued)	PDF HTML	PDF
15A. Application	PDF HTML	PDF
15B. Application (continued)	PDF HTML	PDF
16. Transitions & Dialogical Method	PDF HTML	PDF
17. Methods of Sermon Presentation	PDF HTML	PDF
18. Voice & Gesture	PDF HTML	PDF
19. Dress & Style	PDF HTML	PDF
20. Old Friends in New Clothes	PDF HTML	PDF
21. Word & Spirit	PDF HTML	PDF
22. A Redemptive Approach to Preaching	PDF HTML	PDF
23. Developing Redemptive Messages	PDF HTML	PDF
24. Hearing the Application of Redemptive Principles	PDF HTML	PDF
25. Redemptive Interpretation and Biblical Genre	PDF HTML	not applicable

Related Readings
All of the books specified as related reading for this course are listed below. Books may be ordered from a local Christian bookstore, through a mail order catalog, from the Covenant Seminary Online Store, or from the Covenant Seminary Bookstore on campus (call toll-free at 877-213-3353).

Christ-Centered Preaching: Redeeming the Expository Sermon, 2nd ed. (Baker, 2005), Bryan Chapell
Holiness by Grace (Crossway, 2001), Bryan Chapell
Between Two Worlds (Eerdmans, 1982), John Stott
Preaching & Biblical Theology (Eerdmans, 1961; rpt. Presbyterian & Reformed, n.d.), Edmund Clowney
Putting the Truth to Work (Presbyterian & Reformed, 2001), Daniel M. Doriani
Preaching the Whole Bible as Christian Literature (Eerdmans, 2000), Graeme Goldsworthy
A Treatise on the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons (4th ed), John A. Broadus

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