Preaching
WP100 1 Main Spring Semester
Saturdays 9:00 am– 12:00 pm, Lark 102
Faculty: Derrick McQueen
Email: dmcqueen@lancasterseminary.edu
Phone: 917-689-0809
Class: Saturdays 9:00am– 12:00 pm, Lark 102
Office Hours: By Appointment
Course Objective:
This preaching course is designed for each student to either define or establish what is their own unique “preaching voice”. In order for you to get the most out of this course you must be familiar with and be able to articulate your own theological understandings of your faith tradition. This will enable the preacher to be effective to the needs of the persons to whom they are preaching and to a faith context that helps shape the arc of your individual ministry. This class grouping is an entity unto itself. And as recommended by the writers of the text A Sermon Workbook, syllabus will be honed after community identity has been established. Each week you will be asked read one of the chapters in Part I and to do one of the exercises in Part II.
Students should be able to:
1. Explain the origins of and historical shifts in Christian worship.
2. Identify the performative dimensions of the Preaching Moment and to analyze those components theologically.
3. Identify the variety of traditions of homiletic modes and to assess the implementations of these modes.
4. Demonstrate the connection between the law of praying and the law of believing in their planning of worship.
5. Engage the rich variety of Christian texts and religious contexts with understanding and appreciation.
6. Articulate ways in which preaching is important in the life of Christians and religious communities.
7. Articulate how the history of preaching in worship is evidenced in their particular contemporary worship.
WP100 1 Main Spring Semester
Saturdays 9:00 am– 12:00 pm, Lark 102
Faculty: Derrick McQueen
Email: dmcqueen@lancasterseminary.edu
Phone: 917-689-0809
Class: Saturdays 9:00am– 12:00 pm, Lark 102
Office Hours: By Appointment
Course Objective:
This preaching course is designed for each student to either define or establish what is their own unique “preaching voice”. In order for you to get the most out of this course you must be familiar with and be able to articulate your own theological understandings of your faith tradition. This will enable the preacher to be effective to the needs of the persons to whom they are preaching and to a faith context that helps shape the arc of your individual ministry. This class grouping is an entity unto itself. And as recommended by the writers of the text A Sermon Workbook, syllabus will be honed after community identity has been established. Each week you will be asked read one of the chapters in Part I and to do one of the exercises in Part II.
Students should be able to:
1. Explain the origins of and historical shifts in Christian worship.
2. Identify the performative dimensions of the Preaching Moment and to analyze those components theologically.
3. Identify the variety of traditions of homiletic modes and to assess the implementations of these modes.
4. Demonstrate the connection between the law of praying and the law of believing in their planning of worship.
5. Engage the rich variety of Christian texts and religious contexts with understanding and appreciation.
6. Articulate ways in which preaching is important in the life of Christians and religious communities.
7. Articulate how the history of preaching in worship is evidenced in their particular contemporary worship.
