Fortress Press

Gospel Sermons for Children: Gospels, Series A

Gospel Sermons for Children introduces sixty new children's sermons featuring gospel messages and interactive activities that help children learn as they...

The Collected Sermons of Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Author), Isabel Best (Editor)

Preaching, according to Bonhoeffer, is like offering an apple to a child. The gospel is proclaimed, but for it to be received as gift depends on whether or not the hearer is in a position to do so...

Preaching the Headlines: Possibilities and Pitfalls

Lisa L. Thompson (Author)

Preaching the Headlines reframes preaching as an ongoing conversation between the modern world and the world of the biblical text. Preachers use what they know about life as a bridge to the text, while life in the text provides the bridge back to faith in the contemporary world. The goal of the book is to provide a process to aid preachers in doing theological reflection on the everyday world as an integral part of sermon development.

Mark: Fortress Biblical Preaching Commentaries

David Schnasa Jacobsen (Author/Editor)

The author draws together the strengths of two exegetical approaches to the Gospel of Mark in this volume. With liturgical sensitivity and exegetical skill, Jacobsen here provides a unique preaching resource that will build biblical literacy by assisting both preachers and listeners in understanding Mark's Gospel as narrative-theological whole, not just as a collection of loosely related stories.

Leading with the Sermon: Preaching as Leadership

William H. Willimon (Author)

Prolific author William H. Willimon makes the compelling case that two key pastoral tasks--preaching and leadership--complement, correct, strengthen, and inform one another. Preaching is the distinctive function of pastoral leaders. Leadership of the church, particularly during a challenging time of transition in mainline Protestantism, has become a pressing concern for pastors. This book shows how the practices, skills, and intentions of Christian preaching can be helpful to the leadership of a congregation.

Grace and Gigabytes: Being Church in a Tech-Shaped Culture

Ryan M. Panzer (Author)

Grace and Gigabytes explores the intersection of technology, culture, and church. Examining digital technology not as a set of tools, but as a force for cultural transformation, Ryan M. Panzer explores the networked values of the digital age--questions, connection, collaboration, and creativity; demonstrates the need for the church to change if it is to realize its mission; and makes recommendations for the practice of ministry today.

Storycraft: The Art of Spiritual Narrative

Walter Wangerin Jr. (Author)

In Storycraft: The Art of Spiritual Narrative, celebrated author Walter Wangerin Jr. illustrates the power of well-told stories and shows how important embracing story is as an essential tool for preaching and teaching the gospel. The book offers a theology of story that is profoundly incarnational as the Word takes on flesh in practiced speech.

The Visual Preacher: Proclaiming an Embodied Word

Steve Thomason (Author)

In The Visual Preacher: Proclaiming an Embodied Word, Steve Thomason's winsomely illustrated text shows preachers basic principles and visual techniques to create and use images that will make them even more effective communicators than they already are. Preachers need not be skilled artists or technological wizards to apply Thomason's ideas.

Real People, Real Faith: Preaching Biblical Characters

Cindy Halvorson (Author)

Real People, Real Faith portrays biblical characters as multidimensional human beings who journeyed with God. Cindy Halvorson provides practical tools for creating portraits of real people whose relationship with God is like our own. Being touched by a biblical character's story can help one experience the Divine's love and care for them.

Shaping the Claim: Moving from Text to Sermon

Marvin A. McMickle (Author)

Shaping the Claim helps the preacher discover the core of the message to be preached—the sermonic "claim." In order to be effective, says...

Preaching to Those Walking Away

N. Graham Standish (Author)

Preaching to Those Walking Away explores approaches to preaching typically not taught in seminaries and that reach the spiritual but not religious. N. Graham Standish integrates insights from postmodernism, multiple-intelligences and marketing theories, spiritual formation, counseling, brain research, TED Talks, and other disciplines.

The Assembly: A Spirituality

Gordon W. Lathrop (Author)

Gathering with others constitutes the essential symbol of Christianity. Assembly is the biblical name for this local community. The book calls the church to think anew about gathering and to refresh its practice, articulating a spirituality that engages the assembly's gathering into the triune God and turns it toward the needs of our neighbors.

The Season of Creation: A Preaching Commentary

Norman C. Habel (Editor), David Rhoads (Editor), H. Paul Santmire (Editor)

As the global climate crisis worsens, many churches have sought to respond by instituting a movement to observe a liturgical season of creation. Scholars who...

Serving the Word: Preaching in Worship

Melinda A. Quivik (Author)

This book invites the reader to see how God's word can become the crux not only of the sermon but of the worship service as a whole. Over the past half-century,...

Determining the Form

O. Wesley Allen Jr. (Author)

This fifth title in the Elements of Preaching series offers preaching students and clergy an overview of some of the most common sermonic forms and provides...

Knowing the Context: Frames, Tools, and Signs for Preaching

James R. Nieman (Author)

While everyone might affirm that preaching needs to engage its listeners deeply, the initial move for novice preachers is to think this can be attained by...

Literary Companion to the Lectionary: Readings Throughout the Year

Mark Pryce (Compiler/Editor)

This beautiful book offers poems and literary pieces for Sundays and principal feasts throughout the liturgical year. Each selection relates to an aspect of...

The Trinity and the Spirit: Two Essays from Christian Dogmatics

Robert W. Jenson (Author)

Presented independently are the two loci by the author from Christian Dogmatics. In The Triune God, Jenson examines the Doctrine of God and in The Holy Spirit, he undertakes Pneumatology. For students and scholars alike, this assembly of Forde's early work will broaden the impact of his thought for a new generation.

For Every Matter under Heaven: Preaching on Special Occasions

Beverly Zink-Sawyer (Author), Donna Giver-Johnston (Author)

In For Every Matter under Heaven: Preaching on Special Occasions, Beverly Zink-Sawyer and Donna Giver-Johnston offer a process for creating biblically grounded, relevant sermons for events that arise from calendars, celebrations, or circumstances by considering the occasion, the gathered listeners, and the ways God is at work in that season.

Preaching Must Die!: Troubling Homiletical Theology

Jacob D. Myers (Author)

The real question for homiletics in our increasingly postmodern, post-Christian contexts is not how we are going to prevent preaching from dying, but how we...