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Eswine gives a great look at what it is to preach in our world today, His take is a reminder to preach in context and to let God speak, This book on preaching to a posteverything world begins by asking the question, "Could your preaching reach who you once were" For some, that might be a challenging question.
For me, having been raised in a Christian family, it isn't nearly as taxing as asking if my preaching is able to reach the unchurched in my neighbourhood.
But I liked the premise which is outward looking, missionfocussed, Eswine starts with Chappel's Christcentred preaching model, But whereas Chappell seemed to be writing for a churched audience, Eswine consciously asks what the implications are of the various principles in a churched, nonchurched and mixed context.
He draws on Keller and others to assist with this,

I liked the second part of the book where he encouraged preachers to match their preaching to the preaching style of the text: priest, prophet or sage.
He provided good rationale and practical example for modifying our approach to match how God speaks,

I really liked the third section where he discussed various tough topics for preachers to handle: the war passages, hell, idols, and the devil.
His insights were practical and profound, I was especially pleased with his inclusion of a section on "unction" even though I felt that there was much more to be said here.
His concluding comments and suggestions for being missional monastics or monastic missionaries matched my own mantra of being mystic activists,

Eswine writes with a real flair for creative expression and from having wrestled with these ideas in personal, pastoral ministry as well as in the classroom.
This offering is wellworth reading for those who have covered the basics of preaching, Some great moments. But a little meandering at times, During my homiletics training I read guys like Haddon Robinson and Donald Sunukjian, These amazing communicators taught others to preach with excellence in a modern cultural climate, Eswine has done the same for us but in our new postmodern context,

If I were to recommend one book for aspiring preachers it would be this, Very, very well done by Eswine, I really enjoyed Zack Eswine's "Preaching to a PostEverything World," which was assigned for a preaching class at Regent College, It was the third book I had read specifically on preaching but some of my peers who had read books by Bryan Chapell, Haddon Robinson, and other books on preaching thought Eswine drew too much from other homiletics writers without providing fresh content.
I think this is a fair critique but I think Eswine does an able job at synthesizing together these precursors, I especially appreciate Eswine's admonition to preach about those areas of the Bible we post/moderns tend to be squeamish about, such as the conquest of Canaan, the Book of Judges, and Hell.
The one thing I will say is that this book has a lot of terminology in it and it might have been useful to include a glossary at the back.
In many respects this reminded me of a math textbook from high school Eswine offers solid explanations and suggestions for crafting a sermon but it's much better to do the work of writing a sermon alongside reading this book.
Insanely insightful and helpful for anyone who wants to share their faith, This book really helps you understand people, and meet them where thy are, A must read for preachers/pastors/teachers, There is no book written by Zack Eswine that hasnt encouraged me, challenged me, and ministered to my own soul, This book is no exception, Obviously the books topic is preaching and it is very helpful in that sense, but most preaching books wont feed your soul, This would be a, were it not for the abysmal book production, A rough paperbackcheap binding, cheaper font screen printing,

Good insights throughout, a lot to glean, This book is pure gold, not that there weren't points of disagreement for in areas of sage preaching for example but even in these areas I found a lot to learn from.
Eswine is humble, and understands that we should be thinking about preaching to the unchurched and finding that mutual human condition that we all share in.
Great book! He quotes Bryan Chappel a lot, so it would be beneficial to familiarize yourself with ChristCentered Preaching before reading this book, Great book on preaching. Thorough, inspiring, and practical. This is one of my favorite books on preaching, Eswine is a Chapell guy and you will see a lot of overlap with 'ChristCentered Preaching', The best part about this book is how Eswine makes a biblical case for different forms of preaching, While many evangelical and Reformed preachers tend to only be 'prophetic' preachers and would define preaching in such a form, Eswine shows a biblical case for priestly or sage preaching styles.
One's personality, context, scripture text, etc, should determine the style/delivery,

Lots of practical stuff too, How does one preach narrative texts Eswine gives some good options,

Like ChristCentered Preaching, of Haddon Robinson's Biblical Preaching and other wellknown homiletical texts, this book will be a reference guide for your preaching ministry.
Meh.
I found a few good takeaways, but mostly just, . . Meh. Really good. Much denser than I imagined, and even different than I first imagined, but wow, . this was a good book, I will need to go back to review some of the points as I took a long time to get through the book, but I especially loved that this work builds on the work of Bryan Chapell's "ChristCentered Preaching.
" I have really mixed feelings about this book: certain chapters are almost indispensable reading for preachers, while others were dry and difficult to slog through.
Additionally, the title is somewhat misleading, and the chapters were not organized well,

The notion of preaching to a "posteverything world," is very compelling to me, and I picked up this book in the hope that Zack Eswine would thoughtfully engage the realities of our postmodern climate, why preaching seems to be an art that is loving it's relevancy to young people today, and how to change that tide.
There are moments that lean in this direction, but much of the book admittedly feels like a rote handbook for sermon prep, particularly the first third.


This is not to say that the book is worthless I did give itstars, as I do plan on keeping it on my shelf.
Eswine includes extremely thoughtful chapters on how to talk about war in the bible in an age that is terrified of terrorism, how to speak about hell, and how to prepare for preaching like a sage.
These chapters were profoundly helpful, and made me wish the rest of the book was up to par with them,

This is generally a helpful book for those who are interested in the art of preaching to our culture, but I can only give a highly qualified recommendation.
If you are intrigued by the premise, pick it up with the understanding that only certain sections are explicitly about our posteverything, skeptical culture.
A bit verbose but also very helpful in parts, especially early on,.stars. There was a lot of this book that I really liked, Still trying to wrap my head around the roles the author says a preacher must embody, it will require more thought and pondering, But I really liked the last few chapters about how to preach tough texts and preach them in a way to reach our postChristian world.
Good stuff This book contains a great deal of material that is not only professionally challenging, but personally challenging as well, Really enjoyed it. An interesting and useful enough book on preaching a thoughtful consideration of the impact of the world we live in on how we need to preach.
Eswine considers how we are heard, and how we can be better heard,

One of his most useful points is hismodels of preaching: a prophet, a priest and a sage, and to which contexts each is better suited: churches, in between, unchurched.
I appreciated his concept of sage preaching ie learning from Job, Proverbs and Ecclesiastes as an approach to presenting truth in thest century.


Helpful too in terms of highlighting flaws and biases in preaching,

Absolutely packed with material could perhaps have done with a more rigorous editing to whittle it down to the essentials, Perhaps a little overdone with frameworks and quirky titles as one other reviewer notes "adding clutter to an otherwise simple framework",

Finishes with a vital emphasis on the need to look to the Holy Spirit to fill our preaching, and advice for the preacher's own devotional life.
Zack Eswine starts this unique pastoral resource with a captivating question: Could I now reach who I once was Challenging the idea that today's preachers must do away with biblical or expository preaching if they are to reach nonChristian people, Eswine offers a way of preaching that embraces biblical exposition in missional terms.
Recognizing all of the different cultural situations in which the gospel must be preached, he gives preachers practical advice on preaching in a global context while remaining faithful to the Bible.

Pastors, seminarians, and church and ministry leaders who speak in various contexts will welcome this fresh, thoughtful examination of bringing the Word to today's multieverything, posteverything world.
Helpful content, but the communication and organization frustrated me, This was a difficult read, but a necessary one,

Helpful in formulating what to say and how to say it, This book was excellent and okay, At times it felt like I was reading a share trading chart, moving betweenstar andstar moments regularly, It had material that made me sit up, smile, rush for a pen and scribble things down in fear that such valuable information would suddenly vanish from the universe.
At other times it had me irritated, yawning and confused by adding clutter to what was previously such a simple model, Added to that, Eswine waffles as I've experienced in his other book Sensing Jesus and is sometimes too clever in his style, which obscures meaning and feels forced.
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