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Preaching with Freshness (Preaching With Series)

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I am a Pastoral Intern for the summer and when the Pastor I am serving under gave me this book to read, I thought to myself, "great another book on preaching, as if I haven't read enough of these in 3 years on Homiletics." But I started reading it and I was enthrolled in it. I read it in three days, the fastest I have read a book in a long time, I just couldn't put it down. I read thru it and it reminded me of some things I had learned, some things I wish I would have learned and helped me explain some things I was suppose to learn in Hom Class.
Great book I would recommend it and think it would be applicable, whether yoy have been preaching 1 month or 50 years

God Bless,
Paul

Philemon 25

This book addresses the task of preaching and preachers in the form of a novel. It tells the story of a pastor on the verge of burnout who regains his passion for, and develops new skill in, preaching. Mawhinney does a good job of presenting solid, and sometimes profound, instruction for preaching in a very readable format. I kept reading because I wanted to find out the story ended. I highly recommend this book for new and veteran preachers.

This is a great book! It reinforces the disciplines of study and organization! I have recommended this book to many people and have given it to fellow preachers as a gift.

If I were pastoring a church, I would definitely use the principles found in this book to improve my pulpit ministry!

I thoroughly enjoyed the format in which it was written, any one of us in full-time ministry can identify with any one portion of the emotions and experiences that the lead character went through during the "dry spell" in his life!

I first read this book in Seminary which was almost 5 years ago. The truths presented in this book, if followed, will raise up a new generation of preachers that God will use powerfully. In a story format the author writes almost humorously the story of one defeated pastor's journey in discovering the importance of early preparation for sermon writing. I am still trying to follow the guidelines from this book. I haven't completely succeeded but am on my way!

I've been a pastor at the same church for almost 18 years. I've preached hundreds of sermons, taught hundreds of lessons and our church (by God's grace) has quadrupled in attendance. After a while I start to wonder if people are going to keep listening and how much longer I can keep doing this. The format of this book and teaching of this author is very helpful. I am recommending it to all my pastor friends.

This is a really good book. I'm in bible school as well and a lot of what one of the characters talk about are things you have to normally pay $10,000 to find out! So I would recommend this book to anyone who is an aspiring minister. It's inexpensive but rich with knowledge.

This book was an assigned "textbook" for one of my college classes, with one chapter assigned for each class meeting. After reading the first chapter, I didn't want to put it down! The author does an excellent job of capturing your attention with a "close to true life" story that is filled with many good principles of preaching and pastoral ministry. This is a book I plan on sharing with others who are headed toward a preaching and/or teaching ministry!

Great book. Right on track and thorough. I would buy this again and probably will just to give away.

This is a great book! It reinforces the disciplines of study and organization! I have recommended this book to many people and have given it to fellow preachers as a gift.

If I were pastoring a church, I would definitely use the principles found in this book to improve my pulpit ministry!

I thoroughly enjoyed the format in which it was written, any one of us in full-time ministry can identify with any one portion of the emotions and experiences that the lead character went through during the "dry spell" in his life!

This book will change the way you preach and communicate. It is clear, well written, and effective. I read it once a year to brush up on some of the principles. At the same time, the novel story format leave a little to be desired. It doesn't detract anything from the principles but it isn't everyone's cup of tea.