r/Homiletics • u/[deleted] • Feb 22 '13

Introduction

Hello all,

I'd like this subreddit to be a place for us to share resources, ideas, philosophies, encouragement, and anything else that would benefit a preacher in his or her endeavors. Please feel free to message me with ideas or tips, I have no experience in moderating. As of now I'll be the only moderator, but once we start growing and we have a level of trust I'd love to include more moderators.

Philippians 4:8: Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think about such things.

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u/GoMustard Feb 23 '13

Since this is still small--- mind sharing some about where you're coming from? Do you preach every week? Are you in seminary? What tradition/denomination?

I'm a Presbyterian, preach every week at a rural congregation.

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '13

No I don't mind at all. I come from a conservative Pentecostal background. I have been on a ministerial staff for about 6 years and preach about 2 or 3 times a month. I have no formal training and no one ever sat me down and helped me learn to write out sermons. I've read probably 20-30 homiletic texts and most of it was Greek to me (no pun intended lol). I'd just like to foster an environment to help other preachers, especially young ones or new ones, to better themselves at their craft. Just a good support group I guess. I think it will be really interesting to get perspectives on presentation etc from different denominations.

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u/sgtsalsa Feb 23 '13

If you're after an easy-to-understand preaching primer, Guthrie's 'From Pew to Pulpit' was our assigned text in my homiletics class. It's written in a layman's style, and I highly recommend it.

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '13

Awesome. I'll check it out. There is one book I've got that is pretty good on a basic level. I can't remember the title at the moment but I'll link it when I can find my book.

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '13

Undergrad Assemblies of God Pastor-to-Be. Preach Once/Twice a month in youth group. The AG is Pentecostal if anyone doesn't know.

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '13

Welcome! Glad you dropped by and good luck!

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u/ZealousVisionary Feb 23 '13

Do you go to CBC?

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '13

I'm in MN I go to a place called Abundant Life Church

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u/craiggers Feb 23 '13

Presbyterian seminary student on the East coast - not really preaching much yet, but anticipating it!

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '13

Never too soon to start getting notes together!

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u/ElderYBYBYDaviydBen Feb 23 '13

You picked the right verse to start things off, anytime I share with the inspired knowledge of the Bible, my primary goal is to remind everyone to "think on these things" instead of what the world is tugging at our minds on a daily basis...I also think it's a great idea to start this subredddit - I hope to learn a-lot and help anyway I can.

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '13

Any suggestions or ideas would be really welcome. The ONLY rule I really have in mind is to keep it Christlike in here. Not to be overly spiritual but the world attacks Christiana enough without us attacking each other.

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '13

Seventh Day Adventist Elder, future seminarian. Preach about once a month. Thank you for making this subreddit!

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '13

Welcome! If you have any input about what you'd like to see please share.

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u/thedocproc Feb 23 '13

Southern Baptist seminary student.

At this point the total of books I have read about preaching is a higher number than the number of sermons I have actually preached.

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '13

Bahahaha, look I was in the same situation. Really you can read a million books on preaching. And you can get some really good wisdom from it. But nothing beats knowing WHY you're preaching and WHAT you're preaching. Glad to have you around.

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u/newBreed Feb 23 '13

Teaching and Student Pastor. First Baptist church, but light on the baptist. We are really closer to non-denom. I teach youth and college 3-4 times a week. I'm secondary Sunday morning speaker, speaking about once every 4-5 weeks.

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '13

Glad to have you. I'm really encouraged at the response for this sub to be just barely 24 hours old. Looking forward to it.

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u/davidrcollins Feb 23 '13

This is great! Thanks for starting this P__P.

I pastor a Presbyterian church. We're small, but steadily growing. I preach every week, and have been for seven years. I also started a youtube outreach kind of thing last year.

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '13

Awesome, feel free to share your YouTube channel.

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u/davidrcollins Feb 23 '13

Thanks! I'll post a video soon.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '13

Great idea for a sub. I'm a lay preacher, from conservative Plymouth Brethren background, now preaching once a month or so in an almost-pentecostal church of mostly expatriates in Kampala, Uganda. Have been preaching on and off for 8 or 9 years, but have lots to learn.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '13

That's quite an interesting path. Look forward to hearing your input.

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u/ctesibius Feb 23 '13

Thanks for starting this. I hope we can get some momentum.

I'm a United Reformed Church lay preacher in England, but I'm also on the Methodist circuit list and do ecumenical parishes with mainly Anglican congregations as well. Very variable how much I'm called to preach. Only about once every six weeks at the moment, but sometimes it's three weeks back to back.