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In this insightful study, James Earl Massey offers an expanded version of the Twelfth Annual William E. Conger, Jr. Lectures on Biblical Preaching that he delivered at Beeson Divinity School in February 2004. Through a unique collection of informative lectures and illustrative sermons, the highly esteemed teacher and preacher considers four dimensions of the preacher as steward of the gospel story. Pastors will warmly welcome this book as it provides them with both practical guidance and insight about their identity as preachers.

Providing fundamental homiletical principles, this classic book gives readers all the tools they need to prepare a meaningful sermon.

"Sermon design"--James Massey's contemporary, creative approach to shaping specific classifications of sermons--focuses on order (What is the preacher's goal?) and on movement (What structure is he or she using to get there?). The discussion of his approach begins with an appraisal of the sermon in context--in relation to goals, design, basic forms, contemporary concerns, and the "why" of it all.

Dr. Massey's specific forms for designing...

In this volume James Earl Massey explores both the sense of burden and the sense of joy that accompanies the preaching task. He gives attention to the preacher's sense of the inward side of the task, next to the outward side of preaching. He then considers the togetherness that earnest preachers seek to experience with their hearers, followed by reflections on the planning necessary for the eventfulness that preaching was ordained by God to offer.

War came to Crooked Creek Valley, shattering the calm and summoning the men to battle. J.M. Bailey answered the call - fighting at Oak Hills, Elkhorn Tavern and Corinth. After Confederate troops surrendered at Port Hudson, Bailey returned home to discover that the conflict had ravaged the region. He took up arms once more to defend the elderly and helpless against the Federal troops who waged war without mercy on the once peaceful Valley. The Memoirs of Captain J.M. Bailey is an account of the cruel fighting on the Arkansas-Missouri border, where loyalties shifted according to which military...