The Heart Is the Target: Preaching Practical Application from

The Heart Is the Target: Preaching Practical Application from Every Text

Godâ€™s Word is powerful, and when preached clearly and applied pertinently it can change lives. Yet preaching does not always have this impact. When it is concerned merely with teaching information, it can leave congregations unmoved, and when it sacrifices substance for relevance, it shortchanges the power of the text.

For preaching to truly change lives, biblical faithfulness and insightful application must work togetherâ€”a powerful combination.

Murray Capill helps preachers to shape sermons that impact lives with lasting application. He takes preachers through the â€œliving applicationâ€ preaching processâ€”moving the Word of God, via the life of the preacher, to the lives of the hearers. His model avoids the pitfalls of tacked-on application and enables preachers to aim at the heart from start to finish, and he outlines how they can do so in some specific preaching challenges.

Here are the tools to systematically explore the application potential of any text, in any situation.

â€œExperienced preachers are well aware of the pitfalls that pervade the terrain of application in preaching. . . . The Heart Is the Target not only provides biblical and theological correctives to such errors and imbalances, but also offers practical guidance in preparing sermons that serve the transformative purposes of the Bible.â€
â€” Dennis E. Johnson, Professor of Practical Theology, Westminster Theological Seminary, California

â€œMurray Capill has obviously thought deeply and long about sermon application and clearly has a passion for itâ€”one that is highly appealing to the reader. There is a sensitive awareness of the situation of the â€˜average preacher.â€™ . . . I wish I had had this text in my hands when I began preaching over fifty years ago.â€
â€”Bruce Milne, traveling preacher and teacher of pastoral leaders

MURRAY CAPILL (D.Min., Westminster Theological Seminary, California) has pastored churches in New Zealand and Australia and is principal at the Reformed Theological College in Geelong, Australia, where he lectures in preaching and pastoral ministry.
Country USA
Manufacturer P&R Publishing
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2014-04-28
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	P&R Publishing
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2014-04-28
Format	Kindle eBook

The Heart Is the Target: Preaching Practical Application from Every Text

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