Jeffrey D. Arthurs, Author at Preaching.com

Jeffrey D.

Arthurs

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Jeffrey D. Arthurs (PhD, Purdue) is professor of preaching and communication at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. A past president of the Evangelical Homiletics Society, Arthurs has taught preaching and communication at a dozen colleges and seminaries, served as a teaching pastor, and continues an active ministry of pulpit supply and conference speaking. He is the author of Preaching with Variety and Devote Yourself to the Public Reading of Scripture. In this book, Arthurs brings his decades of preaching experience to explain how pastors can stir memory through vivid language, story, delivery, and ceremony, and how they serve as the Lord’s remembrancers.

The Preacher’s Call: Not Originality, but the Stirring of Memory

Jeffrey D. Arthurs

The following is an excerpt from Jeffrey D. Arthur's new book, Preaching As Reminding. The phrase “the Lord’s remembrancers” was coined in 1594 by Lancelot Andrewes, chaplain to Queen Elizabeth and King Jame... Continue Reading...

Preaching with Variety

Jeffrey D. Arthurs

In "Preaching with Variety," Jeffrey Arthurs helps us as preachers better understand the "rhetorical dynamics" of the various literary genres found in scripture, and he helps us think strategically about how to effectively preach such texts in a way that honors the form in which God inspired them.