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Wise Up! (Hardcover)
Alyce M McKenzie
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Homiletics textbooks often discourage the use of humor in
preaching, regarding it as trivializing or distracting. The result
is that many preachers have failed to understand humor's positive
power, demoting it to the opening joke to get a guaranteed guffaw
to warm up the crowd. Humor Us!, the second volume in the
"Preaching and..." series, is a collaborative effort by
homiletician Alyce M. McKenzie and humor scholar Owen Hanley Lynch
that promotes humor, a force capable of great good, to its rightful
place in the pulpit. Establishing humor as a divine gift, Humor Us!
opens to preachers the world of humor studies with its positive
portrayal of humor's usefulness to speak truth to power, unite
people in their common humanity, and strengthen them to cope and
survive in tough times. Humor Us! helps preachers understand how
humor works and shows them, in very practical and specific ways,
how preachers can put it to work in their sermons. It combines the
wealth of knowledge of two highly regarded scholars-practitioners
to show how humor can become a potent tool for sharing the good
news in sermons. McKenzie and Lynch prove that humor, when applied
thoughtfully, can foster compassion and a sense of common humanity,
help challenge an unjust status quo, and invite listeners into a
shared experience of the presence of God.
How can preachers ensure that their sermons continue to engage
listeners in a world defined by visual media and the short,
segmented delivery of information? Alyce McKenzie harnesses the
element of drama and the human fascination with scenes to offer
ministers a modern means of sermon development and delivery.
McKenzie's core strategy is to invite listeners into
scenes—whether from Scripture or contemporary
life—and, once they are there, to point them toward the
larger story of God's relationship with humankind. Creating such
scenes unifies the whole process of preaching, she says, from the
preacher's daily life observations to interpretation of scenes from
Scripture, to sermon shaping, sequencing, and delivery. The process
culminates in a specific understanding of the purpose of the
sermon: to send listeners out into the scenes they'll play in their
lives for the next week, equipped to act out their parts in ways
that are kinder, more just, and more courageous than last week.
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Wise Up! (Paperback)
Alyce M McKenzie
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In this humorous guide, John C. Holbert and Alyce M. McKenzie
provide helpful and practical advice for avoiding the common
mistakes that many preachers make in their sermons. Useful for
preachers, students, and teachers alike, What Not to Say addresses
how to use language about God, how to use stories in preaching, and
what not to say (and what to say) in the beginning, middle, and end
of sermons. A companion video with preaching illustrations is
available online at wjkbooks.com.
In this lively and accessible book, Alyce McKenzie explores how
fiction writers approach the task of writing novels: how they
develop their ideas, where they find their inspiration, and how
they turn the spark of a creative notion into words on paper that
will captivate the masses. McKenzie's study shows how preachers can
use the same techniques to enhance their own creativity and to turn
their ideas into powerful, well crafted sermons. "Novel Preaching"
offers a wealth of advice from successful fiction writers,
including Isabelle Allende, Frederick Buechner, Julia Cameron,
Annie Dillard, Natalie Goldberg, Stephen King, Toni Morrison, Joyce
Carol Oates, and Melanie Rae Thorn, and also includes a number of
sample sermons from McKenzie herself.
This book in the popular For Today series introduces the reader
to the main parables of Jesus in an engaging and accessible way.
Professor, author, and preacher Alyce McKenzie makes the familiar
parables come alive with new meaning, using the best of biblical
scholarship to provide an easy entrance to this major form of
Jesus' teachings. With questions for discussion at the end of each
chapter, this book is ideal for personal and group study.
The For Today series was designed to provide reliable and
accessible resources for the study and real life application of
important biblical texts, theological documents, and Christian
practices. The emphasis of the series is not only on the
realization and appreciation of what these subjects have meant in
the past, but also on their value in the present--"for today."
Thought-provoking questions are included at the end of each
chapter, making the books ideal for personal study and group
use.
Proverbs abound in contemporary culture and in biblical texts. But
surprisingly, the use of proverbial wisdom is conspicuously absent
in the contemporary pulpit. Alyce McKenzie offers preachers an
effective way to reclaim proverbs in preaching, highlights their
usefulness in contemporary situations, and demonstrates their
ability to confirm (or subvert) the status quo.
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