Choosing to Preach: A Comprehensive Introduction to Sermon Options and Structures

In Choosing to Preach, homiletics professor Dr. Kenton C. Anderson delivers a forward-looking, comprehensive textbook designed to help current and future ministers communicate biblical truth effectively in an evolving cultural landscape. Rather than prescribing a single rigid homiletical model, Anderson introduces five distinct sermon structures—Declarative, Pragmatic, Narrative, Visionary, and Integrative—demonstrating how each engages listeners cognitively and affectively. With practical examples connecting each style to well-known contemporary preachers, this standard seminary volume equips expositors with a versatile homiletical toolkit to preach God's Word with fidelity and relevance.