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What Is Excellence in Preaching?
Scott E. Hoezee
Calvin Symposium on Worship 2007

What should preachers keep in mind in composing sermons? Toward what sermonic goals should they aspire? What evaluative categories can church members become aware of to dialogue more meaningfully with their pastors (and with one another) about the preaching life of the church? This session will hold up the rubrics "Biblical, Authentic, Contextual, and Life-Changing" as goals for preachers and as helpful categories for congregations to use in discussing sermons. When pastors and church members come to a common understanding of what preaching should be, possibilities for helpful conversations begin across the life of the congregation, to the mutual benefit of all!

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Scott Hoezee is director of the Center for Excellence in Preaching at Calvin Theological Seminary, co-editor of Perspectives: A Journal of Reformed Thought, and former pastor of several churches. His latest books are Remember Creation: God's World of Wonder and Delight (Eerdmans, 2006) and Proclaim the Wonder: Preaching Science on Sunday (Baker, 2003).

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