Preaching Christ from the Genesis

by Greidanus, Sidney

• ISBN13: 9780802825865
• ISBN10: 0802825869
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-06-25
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

Sidney Greidanus's previous two preaching books ? The Modern Preacher and the Ancient Text and Preaching Christ from the Old Testament ? have received wide acclaim. Preaching Christ from Genesis offers more of Greidanus's solid, practical homiletical fare. Packed with unique features, Preaching Christ from Genesis uses the latest scholarly research to analyze twenty-three Genesis narratives presents the rhetorical structures and other literary features of each narrative discloses the message for Israel (theme) as well as the author??'s likely purpose (goal) explores various ways of preaching Christ from each narrative offers sermon exposition and commentary in oral style suggests relevant sermon forms, introductions, and applications Including helpful appendixes ? ???Ten Steps from Text to Sermon, ??? ???An Expository Sermon Model, ??? and three of the author's own Genesis sermons ? this volume will be an invaluable resource for preachers and Bible teachers.

Table of Contents

Issues in preaching Christ from Genesis	p. 1
God creates the universe	p. 43
Paradise lost	p. 62
Cain and Abel	p. 86
Noah and the flood	p. 101
The tower of Babel	p. 120
The call of Abram	p. 139
God's covenant with Abraham	p. 158
The birth of Isaac	p. 179
The call to sacrifice Isaac	p. 194
The burial of Sarah	p. 213
A bride for Isaac	p. 228
Jacob and Esau	p. 246
Jacob's deception of Isaac	p. 263
Jacob's dream at Bethel	p. 280
Jacob's marriage to Leah and Rachel	p. 296
Jacob's wrestling with God at Peniel	p. 315
Joseph's sale into slavery	p. 335
Judah and Tamar	p. 357
Joseph in Potiphar's house	p. 378
Joseph's rise to power in Egypt	p. 394
Joseph's testing of his brothers	p. 410
Jacob's move to Egypt	p. 433
Jacob's death and burial	p. 455
Ten steps from text to sermon	p. 474
An expository sermon model	p. 476
A sermon on the creation narrative - Genesis 1:1-2:3	p. 478
A sermon on the Cain-Abel narrative - Genesis 4:1-26	p. 485
A sermon on Abram's call to the land - Genesis 11:27-12:9	p. 494
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