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Plain Truth for Plain People: Sermons for the Christian Year from the Wesleyan Tradition
Plain Truth for Plain People: Sermons for the Christian Year from the Wesleyan Tradition
Plain Truth for Plain People: Sermons for the Christian Year from the Wesleyan Tradition
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Having studied preaching at a doctoral level and practiced the craft for more than thirty years, Brad Estep offers fifty biblically grounded, theologically informed, and congregationally contextualized sermons centered around the different seasons of the Christian year. In addition to the sermon itself, Estep provides additional analysis that revolves around the homiletical structure, reasons for effectiveness, and usage of illustrative material. This work is designed for preachers who are interested and committed to the craft of preaching. Intended for reflective practitioners, Plain Truth for Plain People helps to reveal how and why sermons are crafted in the way that they are. Because of that, this book is also of interest to parishioners in the pews. At the top of the list of desirable skills in a pastor is preaching. This work helps provide examples of what that looks like--or more accurately, what that sounds like.
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Release dateMar 22, 2019
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Plain Truth for Plain People: Sermons for the Christian Year from the Wesleyan Tradition
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Brad Estep

Brad Estep is lead pastor of the Church of the Nazarene in Sun City, Arizona. Prior to serving there, he was the lead pastor at the First Church of the Nazarene in Kansas City, Missouri. Estep earned an MA from Southern Nazarene University, an MDiv from Nazarene Theological Seminary, and a ThM and PhD in practical theology with an emphasis in preaching and worship from Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia.

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