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Research paper thumbnail of AN EXEGETICAL COMPARISON OF MATTHEW 11 25 30 AND SIRACH 51 23 27

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Research paper thumbnail of When Sermons Won't Structure Themselves: Three Case Studies in Sermon Structure from Matthew's Gospel

This is a paper I presented at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Homiletics Society. A... more This is a paper I presented at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Homiletics Society.

Among expositional preachers and homileticians, it is often argued that truly expository sermons receive their structure from the text being preached. Many biblical texts, especially those in didactic passages, present such obvious structure that this rule is often the most natural approach to sermon structure. However, often the preacher encounters a text that either bears no obvious structure or is arranged in such a way that its structure is not helpful for presentation. This paper will demonstrate that certain types of biblical texts ought to be presented with an alternative arrangement than that found in the text. Three passages from the Gospel of Matthew will be examined as test cases: the dense text (Matthew 5:3-12), the circular text (Matthew 13:44-46), and the episodic text (Matthew 14:1-12).

Research paper thumbnail of AN EXEGETICAL COMPARISON OF MATTHEW 11 25 30 AND SIRACH 51 23 27

Research paper thumbnail of When Sermons Won't Structure Themselves: Three Case Studies in Sermon Structure from Matthew's Gospel

This is a paper I presented at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Homiletics Society. A... more This is a paper I presented at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Evangelical Homiletics Society.

Among expositional preachers and homileticians, it is often argued that truly expository sermons receive their structure from the text being preached. Many biblical texts, especially those in didactic passages, present such obvious structure that this rule is often the most natural approach to sermon structure. However, often the preacher encounters a text that either bears no obvious structure or is arranged in such a way that its structure is not helpful for presentation. This paper will demonstrate that certain types of biblical texts ought to be presented with an alternative arrangement than that found in the text. Three passages from the Gospel of Matthew will be examined as test cases: the dense text (Matthew 5:3-12), the circular text (Matthew 13:44-46), and the episodic text (Matthew 14:1-12).

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