Preaching in an Age of Distraction

Name: Preaching in an Age of Distraction
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ISBN: 9780830841103

ISBN-10: 0830841105

ISBN-13: 9780830841103

Edition: 2014

Authors: J. Ellsworth Kalas

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Let your eyes look straight ahead; fix your gaze directly before you.Give careful thought to the paths for your feet and be steadfast in all your ways.- Proverbs 4:25-26Preaching is difficult enough under the best of circumstances. But what are we to do when it seems that all of us--hearers and preachers alike--are constantly distracted? Veteran preacher and homiletics professor J. Ellsworth Kalas offers wise insights for effective preaching in an age of distraction. He examines how people have been distracted in every era and explores how God yet can meet people precisely at the point of their distraction. Regardless of whatever new technologies come our way, this call to pastoral…

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List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Publication date: 2/4/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 167
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English

Ellsworth Kalas is senior professor of homiletics at Asbury Theological Seminary in Lexington, Kentucky. He is an ordained elder in the United Methodist Church and the author of many books, including Preaching the Calendar (Westminster John Knox, 2004) and Faith from the Back Side (Abingdon, 2011).




Naming an Age



The Distracted Preacher



The Distracted Congregation



The Benefits of Distraction



Excellence as a Counter Force



Creativity and Distraction



Packaging and Distraction



The Insistent Power of Sermon Content



The Preacher's Secret Resources