Geoff New – författare

Live, Listen, Tell: The Art of Preaching will guide readers through the process of sermon preparation and hearing God through the Scriptures. By drawing on life and Scripture, especially the road to Emmaus narrative in Luke 24, the author illustrates that preachers are living a story, listening to a story and telling a story. This book encourages you to pay particular attention, through prayer, to the story to which you are listening. Geoff New shows how to prayerfully listen to the Scriptures in preaching preparation and how the fruit of this leads to a sermon – and impacts the way we live, listen and tell.

Live, Listen, Tell: The Art of Preaching will guide readers through the process of sermon preparation and hearing God through the Scriptures. By drawing on life and Scripture, especially the road to Emmaus narrative in Luke 24, the author illustrates that preachers are living a story, listening to a story and telling a story. This book encourages you to pay particular attention, through prayer, to the story to which you are listening. Geoff New shows how to prayerfully listen to the Scriptures in preaching preparation and how the fruit of this leads to a sermon – and impacts the way we live, listen and tell.

Most Christians, whether preachers or not, are familiar with the Lord’s Prayer; maybe too familiar. In this excellent devotional, Geoff New urges us to encounter the Lord’s Prayer again – to encounter it as a text that is urgent and powerful, speaking directly to the needs and longings of the human heart.Written primarily with preachers in mind, this book addresses common ministry challenges, such as discouragement and isolation, and demonstrates how the Lord’s Prayer can meet us in every season of the Christian life. Stories from the author’s life and ministry illustrate the message of each chapter, and readers are encouraged to reflect on their own experiences as they prayerfully encounter the life, death, and resurrection of Christ as reflected in the phrases of the Lord’s Prayer.

Most Christians, whether preachers or not, are familiar with the Lord’s Prayer; maybe too familiar. In this excellent devotional, Geoff New urges us to encounter the Lord’s Prayer again – to encounter it as a text that is urgent and powerful, speaking directly to the needs and longings of the human heart.Written primarily with preachers in mind, this book addresses common ministry challenges, such as discouragement and isolation, and demonstrates how the Lord’s Prayer can meet us in every season of the Christian life. Stories from the author’s life and ministry illustrate the message of each chapter, and readers are encouraged to reflect on their own experiences as they prayerfully encounter the life, death, and resurrection of Christ as reflected in the phrases of the Lord’s Prayer.

From generation-to-generation there has been an anguished cry from preachers about preaching – there is no imagination! The Scriptures present the wondrous hope and vision of “Kingdom Come” and yet contemporary preaching can often be mute and blind by comparison. This book explores what is possible when the Scripture to be preached is prayed through the agency of two ancient prayer disciplines: lectio divina and Ignatian Gospel Contemplation. Through the experiences of eight vocational pastor-preachers this study tracks the difficulties, discoveries and delights as they commit to utilizing these prayer disciplines as part of their regular sermon preparation.The reader will be orientated to what a biblical imagination entails and how praying the Scriptures affects the preacher, sermon and listener. Careful explanation of how to pray using lectio divina and Ignatian Gospel Contemplation is included. This work is, in places, a raw examination of the forces that regularly conspire against the preacher as they endeavour to faithfully expound the Scriptures. The study is a rousing exclamation of the joy experienced when a preacher’s imagination and their preparation is formed by the Spirit, bringing the Scriptures to bear on all who speak and hear it.

From generation-to-generation there has been an anguished cry from preachers about preaching – there is no imagination! The Scriptures present the wondrous hope and vision of “Kingdom Come” and yet contemporary preaching can often be mute and blind by comparison. This book explores what is possible when the Scripture to be preached is prayed through the agency of two ancient prayer disciplines: lectio divina and Ignatian Gospel Contemplation. Through the experiences of eight vocational pastor-preachers this study tracks the difficulties, discoveries and delights as they commit to utilizing these prayer disciplines as part of their regular sermon preparation.The reader will be orientated to what a biblical imagination entails and how praying the Scriptures affects the preacher, sermon and listener. Careful explanation of how to pray using lectio divina and Ignatian Gospel Contemplation is included. This work is, in places, a raw examination of the forces that regularly conspire against the preacher as they endeavour to faithfully expound the Scriptures. The study is a rousing exclamation of the joy experienced when a preacher’s imagination and their preparation is formed by the Spirit, bringing the Scriptures to bear on all who speak and hear it.

El arte de la predicación bíblica: vivir, escuchar y narrar las Escrituras es un libro concebido para guiar a los lectores a través del proceso de preparación del sermón y de escuchar a Dios en las Escrituras. Al graficar sobre la vida y la Palabra de Dios, especialmente el camino que conduce a la narrativa de Emaús en Lucas 24, el autor ilustra que los predicadores viven, escuchan y narran una historia. El lector encontrará en este libro la explicación de un proceso a menudo descuidado en la preparación del sermón. Los predicadores necesitan primero escuchar por sí mismos al Dios de las Escrituras, algo que muchos libros de homilética suponen pero que pocas veces dan orientación. Es un libro valioso tanto para quienes se inician en la predicación como para los experimentados en este quehacer puesto que en sus páginas encontrarán inspiración, ideas prácticas y consejos para un fructífero ejercicio de la predicación bíblica.

El autor muestra en este libro los beneficios de dos antiguas disciplinas relacionadas con la oración y la reflexión: la lectura orante y la reflexión espiritual en la preparación del sermón. Ambos son dos enfoques contemplativos del estudio de la Biblia que, junto a un análisis histórico y exegético del texto a predicarse, forman parte del proceso de preparación y presentación del sermón bíblico. Vale decir, son ejercicios que ayudan a los predicadores a lograr una relación primordial con la Biblia y ayuda a cultivar la creatividad en la predicación y desarrolla conciencia de la misión en el mundo para el cual Dios nos ha llamado a servir.Se trata, en verdad, de un recurso para encontrar, en el estudio creativo del texto bíblico, al Cristo resucitado de modo que el sermón sea fresco, real y accesible para los oyentes.  ¿Cómo pueden los predicadores crecer en su acercamiento y conocimiento de Cristo y su Palabra? El autor ofrece un modelo que facilita y anima para el encuentro personal con Dios por medio del texto bíblico, es un modelo respaldado por la experiencia de pastores-predicadores en la investigación que analiza las dificultades, los descubrimientos y alegrías de haberse comprometido con el uso de estas disciplinas de oración imaginativa y reflexión en la preparación semanal de sus sermones.   Recurso útil para pastores, predicadores y líderes de iglesias.