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| The Four Pages of the Sermon: A Guide to Biblical Preaching | 
| Author: Paul Scott Wilson
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 109883
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 276
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.8 x 0.8
ISBN: 0687023955
Dewey Decimal Number: 251
EAN: 9780687023950
ASIN: 0687023955
Publication Date: May 1999
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 Are your sermons complete? February 5, 2008
I had to buy this book for a homiletics class. I really needed to hear what this author had to say about bringing back an equilibrium to our preaching. I recognized my preconceptions to address grace in the text and world as "fluff", can you relate with me? Wilson does a great job of illustrating how we are putting a unneeded burden on the congregation. Read it and find out more!
 A higher level book for a narrative preacher. February 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was a lengthy book concerning the art of preaching. It is a method of preaching in the narrative style from a particular text. The author adds to the discussion of Fred Craddock in improving the form of the narrative genre. It is a insightful and helpful book in organizing a narrative sermon from a text. The major structure that is given in the book is (1) Problem in the biblical text, (2) Problem in the modern world, (3) Grace in the biblical text, (4) Grace in the modern world. This is a basic outline that is fully fleshed out in the book. There are six ones that are helpful in developing the flow of the sermon. These six ones will help considerably in any sermon development. The style that the author is advocating is probably not a weekly sermon style, as I am for changing up the approach from week to week, but this style certainly has a place in the preacher's sermon skill set. This book is not for the beginning preacher, or is it for the three-point only preacher. This book is for someone who understands the narrative approach to preaching and wants to improve his mastery of this style. The book is must read for practitioners of the narrative-inductive style of preaching. Before this book is read, one should read "Preaching" by Craddock and "Homiletical Plot" by Lowry.
Wilson Has It Together April 1, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Having been in the pulpit weekly now for about seventeen years, I have read just about every book on preaching published. Some are clearly better than others. Some are classics. Some are pretty bad. Wilson knows of what he speaks, and I have found his reflections in this book and his ideas to be worthy of practice/ consideration/ emulation and use. He divides the week up into do-able sections with a different daily purpose and places the sermon out in four pages--each page with its own emphasis or direction. Like a master guide pointing out the obvious as one walks through the same stretch of woods for the thousandth time, I noticed, under Wilson's direction, things that I either had taken for granted, or had not paid attention to before-- I did what he said and my preaching improved. I found his remarks cogent, useful, right on the mark, and encouraging. This is one of the better books on preaching recently published and worth your attention.
 Book a Solid C February 21, 2006
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book has good information, but the author's passion for repeating himself yields a text that is literally twice as long as it needs to be to communicate the same information. It is very difficult to plow through due to the monotony. If you have trouble writing sermons or have never tried it before then the book offers a practical formula for doing so. This is a book that the average person will not finish unless they truly need the information it contains.
A superb book that has enhanced my preaching ministry February 20, 2006
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I ordered this book, read it in a few days and I MUST read it again. This is one of the best books that I have read on finding and preaching the grace of GOd. This book shows you how to preach POSITIVE life changing messages that focuses on making God the subject of each message, and what HE has already done; organizing the sermon preparation into 4 disctinct areas-the trouble in the text, the trouble in our world, the grace in the text, and the grace in our world. It teaches you how to find grace even in "negative" passages. There is a message of grace when Samson's hair was cut, and how his hair was symbol of his power but not the source of his power. His real power was in the fact that he took the Nazitite vow, and was asking God to give him His Spirit. (hebrew: ruah) AWESOME!!!!!
It is really a new way to look at the scriptures, and I am excited about the possiblilities of preaching messages filled and focused on God's grace. I see things differenetly. I HEARTILY endorse this book. IT IS GREAT!!!! BUY IT!!!!!!!! YOUR MINISTRY WILL BE BLESSED AND SERMON PREP TIME WILL BE CUT WITHOUT SACRIFICING QUALITY.!!!!!!!!! AEWSOME BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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