Gain Access To The Heart Is The Target: Preaching Practical Application From Every Text Drafted By Murray Capill File Leaflet
book is a gem, an excellent tool that every pastor at least every young pastor needs to have in his tool shed.
It will now sit on the book shelf nearest my desk to be consulted each week and reread each year.
Best preaching book Ive ever read, Excellent book on application in preaching, The sixth chapter entitled 'Applications that live: Shooting Sharp Arrows' alone is worth the price of the book, Methodology books geared on practical application in sermons, which still honor Biblically faithful exegesis seem all but nonexistent, This was the best book I've encountered yet in regards to supplying a toolset of nonformulaic hopefully questions and directions which can regularly yield applicationrich sermons which the church desperately needs.
Immensely helpful. Expositors need to give more thought to application, A book that challenges the preacher to examine his presentation for the glory of God, If you are interested in critiquing your teaching and preaching, this book is for you, a practical yet penetrating work
This book met me at a place and time of great need.
My preaching had become laborious for want of depth, creativity and impact! Thanks to Pastor Murray Capill for enlightening to the wide world of Applicatory, Expository Preaching! I recommend this resource to every preacher who desires to be a better preacher! Where has this book been all my life Actually it's been out for several years.
This is a very good Christcentered, redemptivehistorical, and common sense study of the importance of application in preaching.
Everything in this book resonates with my experience of preaching, both as a listener and as a preacher.
Some really helpful guidance for good application in sermons,
Highly recommended. This was an excellent book on preaching, It helps one think about application in more than theapplication points that one would tack on at the end of the sermon.
It is also very practical book, Many helpful suggestions and grids to put your own sermons through, A very good read overall! Maybe Im just missing them, but good books on preaching application are hard to find, and this one is excellent! Highly recommended for all who regularly teach Gods Word in any format.
Great start, better finish. Everything in between super helpful, Loved this book! Such a good book that need to be reread, Plenty of ways to make solid life applications out of a Bible text, I was greatly helped by the author's adept treatment of making the sermon relevant and compelling, Overall, this is a helpful book on thinking through sermon application, If you have read broadly on preaching, and particularity from Haddon Robinson and Bryan Chapel, you will find this to be a collection of much of what has already been said.
However, that is not a criticism, on the contrary, it is helpful to have a book dedicated to the topic of application, which draws from many sources.
One criticism I do have is how the author pushes transformationalism as the only proper way to apply the text.
In his chapter on "Preaching the Kingdom," he speaks of transforming, communities, neighborhoods, towns, and cities, in order to "reclaim them for Christ.
" Further he criticizes preachers who neglect preaching on "texts about social justice, " He says, "we need to resist spiritualizing all the social justice expressions in the gospel, " Though he never offers a definition of what he means by "social justice," he explicitly includes under this umbrella issues such as fair trade, and poverty.
By wedding "social justice" and the gospel together, at the very least the author is needlessly introducing a controversial and often loaded term, but at worst he may be guilty of removing the focus from what is truly central to the gospel.
A very good guide to emphasizing the application of Scripture in preaching by a Reformed professor, Well done! I found this phenomenally helpful, So many useful tools in here, Beneath and beyond the various tools, the theology of preaching presented in this book is true to the theology of God's redemptive purposes in our lives.
He reveals Himself to us in His Word that we might be made holy in the whole man so that we might commune with Him.
There's an agenda in preaching beyond merely informing or lecturing or educating, There is something deeply formative and spiritually vital in this most central of ordinances of the church, This book was handsdown the most useful preaching resource I have found to date, I would recommend it to any pastor at any level and plan to purchase additional copies often for friends and budding young preachers.
It would be of tremendous benefit to other wordministries outside of preaching and even for those leading family devotionals as it aims to give insights on making the Word applicable to Gods people.
As a word of critique I found the figures that he provides unhelpful as a means of drawing all of the pieces together into a visual and comprehensive whole.
A better means of drawing all of the thoughts together would be beneficial, Overall, however, the book is of tremendous value and I cannot wait to read it again,
In my opinion, there is no finer book on the subject of experimental preaching, This book has opened my eyes to some weaknesses in my preaching and has caused me to think deeply about application as I work through the exegesis.
Every budding pastor/preaching needs to read this book and more than once!, It is a gem. It can be a problem, particularly in reformed circles, to think that preaching is little more than explaining the exegetical details of a text and talking theology for aboutminutes.
While these aspects are important to the preaching process, they are only part of the process, and if sustained careful thought is not given to the task of application, the sermon likely will be of no use to anyone.
Murray Capill covers just about every conceivable angle of how a preacher can apply a sermon to the hearts of his listeners.
If there is any fault to the book, its that the reader is left with too many good practical ideas for how to give application.
For instance, Capill discusses even the difference between “necessary applications” that a text definitely calls for “possible applications” that a person might be called to do, but not necessarily and “impossible application,” which is the way a person must not respond to a text.
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It is this kind of nuance that makes this book endlessly helpful to all preachers of Gods word.
I will return to it often, This is essential read for those who are aiming to preach passionately! A very helpful book on sermon application, I'll be using it frequently in future sermon preparation, A Practical Guide to Applying Your Sermons, Incredibly helpful. So much underlining, so many notes, I'll be coming back to this material a lot and using the tools offered for sure, Great insight, throughly researched, with a broad range of material interacted with to make me feel like all the bases were covered.
Excellent worked examples in key places of what actual words might be used in a sermon, so the praxis of preaching is very well demonstrated.
Excellent tools for how to develop impactful and meaningful applications! This book is a must for all preachers! Murray is originally from New Zealand where he pastored a church in Auckland foryears.
He came to Australia into teach part time at Reformed Theological College Victoria and continue in pastoral ministry, Sincehe has taught practical theology full time and inhe became the Principal of RTC, He is the author of Preaching with Spiritual Vigourand The Heart is the Target, Murray is married to Wendy and they have five children and one grandchild, .