Application is an essential element of effective preaching, yet it is a topic not widely treated in the homiletical literature. One reason for this shortage is, perhaps, the relative difficulty of doing application well.
In his new book Applying the Sermon (Kregel), Daniel Overdorf seeks to fill that gap with a book that offers solid biblical insight and useful practical suggestions for preachers in this area of application. He argues that when it is properly done, application “allows the Word of God to speak” and allows that Word “to speak as explicitly and concretely today as it did originally.”
Overdorf provides an able treatment of his subject along with an interesting tool: a Sermon Application Worksheet that may find a place in the study of many a preacher in the years ahead.