How to Preach a Parable: Designs for Narrative Sermons (Abingdon Preacher's Library Series);

Step-by-step guidance for preachers who want people to listen when they preach about parables. In this practical and insightful guide, one of the nation's most respected preachers shows how to use the structure of Jesus' parables to create lively and interesting sermons. Throughout its pages, How to Preach a Parable remains understandable and carefully grounded in biblical scholarship. Parable sermons from such outstanding preachers as Fred Craddock, Leander Keck, and Dennis Willis are included. The sermons are presented in workshop format, encouraging useful application of the book's ideas.