Expository Preaching With Word Pictures (Mentor)

With Illustrations from the Sermons of Thomas Watson

Plot

"If you are a Bible expositor, what is your aim for your sermons? Are you preparing and delivering your sermons so that the people of God would, not only hear, but understand and thus obey what God has said. 'We want the people of the pews to understand and remember as much of our sermons as possible. We should not be content with firing over people's heads, but with aiming at their hearts, ' (pg 44) ... so says the author, Dr Jack Hughes (MDiv from Master's Seminary and Doctorate of Ministry from Westminster). 'Sometimes expository preachers can give their people exegetical data and fail utterly to give them understanding (pg 69).' Dr Hughes has written this helpful book so that expositors might put appropriate emphasis on communicating God's word effectively. One tool to communicate God's truth is the use of Word Pictures. A Word Picture is any 'word, phrase, story, analogy, illustration, metaphor, figure of speech, trope, allegory, graphical quotation, historical reference, cross reference, or comparison used to help the listener, see, imagine, experience, sense, understand, remember and/or relate to abstract facts.' A working definition is that a Word Picture ' ... describes the many ways words can be used to communicate abstract truth in a picturable, understandable, and memorable way (pg 33) ." Throughout this book, Dr Hughes draws from Thomas Watson's many potent uses of Word Pictures"--Amazon.com