Fire In The Bones Preaching @FirePreaching

A resource for preparation, inspiration, and proclamation. Curated by @levicjones https://t.co/Ppo2TC7dWa fireinthebonespreaching.wordpress.com Kansas City, MO Joined May 2019

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Fire In The Bones Preaching @FirePreaching

5 years ago

"And like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous." - Toni Morrison

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Fire In The Bones Preaching @FirePreaching

6 years ago

@aliciamcclintic It certainly has provided helpful tools for proclamation. :)

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6 years ago

In narrative styles of preaching, we should be aware that narrative is not a cure-all. It can be used to reify systems of oppression. The *types of stories (structure) and the vantage point (interpretive lens) of those stories significantly matter. #preach2020

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Fire In The Bones Preaching @FirePreaching

6 years ago

"Christianity is not an explanation; it is a confession." - @BrianZahnd #preach2020

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6 years ago

3/3 - Walter Brueggemann, Texts That Linger, Words That Explode: Listening to Prophetic Voices

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6 years ago

2/3 They are seized upon by someone in the community with daring. Or perhaps better, the words of the text seize someone in the community who is a candidate for daring. In that moment of re-utterance, the present is freshly illuminated, reality is irreversibly transformed."

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6 years ago

1/3 "It is by the ongoing enterprise of religious and scholarly communities that the text lingers over time in available ways. Out of that lingering, however, from time to time, words of the text characteristically erupt into new usage.

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Fire In The Bones Preaching @FirePreaching

6 years ago

Had a wonderful opportunity to discuss preaching with Rev. Dr. Yvette Massey. We discussed some of the shifts that have happened in preaching due to the pandemic and the hopeful areas she has witnessed in her context. Check it out here: youtu.be/EcdRQT-Wpqg

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Fire In The Bones Preaching @FirePreaching

6 years ago

Rev. Dr. Kathi Johnson reflects on preaching through technology and social media. She provides helpful insights for how she approaches her work with the Digital Gathering (digitalgathering.org). Check out our conversation here: youtu.be/tjC7nsZu8Wc

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Fire In The Bones Preaching @FirePreaching

6 years ago

"As a circle has both a center and a periphery, and neither is more important than the other, so both sermon and sacraments belong to worship in the full sense." - Karl Barth, Homiletics, p. 63

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Fire In The Bones Preaching @FirePreaching

6 years ago

Tom Long preaching from Acts. A good word for today: youtu.be/BDkxv7zOzNA

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Fire In The Bones Preaching @FirePreaching

6 years ago

In our desire to lure consumers, we might be tempted to preach a tame gospel that will not offend, challenge, or chase away those who are seeking a deity that will provide comfort without demanding much at all." - Sarah Travis, Metamorphosis: Preaching After Christendom, p. 6

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Fire In The Bones Preaching @FirePreaching

6 years ago

"Some churches intentionally accommodate to culture, relying on the trends that drive marketing success or strong business models.

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Fire In The Bones Preaching @FirePreaching

7 years ago

this will then forsake him if he does not cultivate his power by constant application and exercise... the man who is powerful in preaching has peculiar need to greater study than others" quoting John Chrysostom, Lucy Lind Hogan, Graceful Speech, 42

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7 years ago

"For though the preacher may have great ability (and this one would only find in a few), not even in this case is he released from perpetual toil. For since preaching does not come by nature, but by study, suppose a man reach a high standard of it [preaching],

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7 years ago

3/3 More than not notice, we resist noticing, because such notice brings with it risky obligation." - Walter Brueggemann, Preaching from the Old Testament, p. 46-47

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7 years ago

2/3 It is impossible to think about or imagine an interruption without first narrating the totalism that is to be interrupted. The hard part is that those of us who dwell in and benefit from the pharaonic arrangement most often do not notice.

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7 years ago

1/3 "The interest of the narrative, and of the preacher's rendering of the narrative, is not just to remember an ancient interruption. It is to energize for and to evoke courage for a contemporary interruption of the violent, lethal totalism that besets us...