March 5, 2012—Spring Preaching Workshop with Dr. Barbara Brown Taylor, 9 a.m. at Cherry Log Christian Church

The Craddock Center is pleased to offer one of America’s best known preachers as the presenter of the Spring, 2012 Preaching Workshop. We hope that you will join us March 5 at Cherry Log Christian Church, 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. Please reserve a seat by emailing Tammy Blair at craddockcenter@tds.net. —TLS

 

 

PREVIOUS WORKSHOPS

PREACHING JESUS

Was the topic for the Fall Preaching Workshop October 3, 2011 with Dr. Willimon presenting.

Dr. Willimon writes “Preaching’s most active proponent and its biggest challenge is Jesus Christ. Faith in Jesus is an auditory, acoustical affair—faith in Jesus Christ comes through preaching. And yet, God in Jesus Christ is a challenge to bring to speech. Jesus is controversial, conflicted, and out of synch with most of our expectations for who God is supposed to be and how God is supposed to act. Jesus Christ is the point of Christian preaching and that living presence that effects faithful preaching in any age.”This workshop will explore the challenge of bringing faith in Jesus Christ to speech. It will build upon Bishop Willimon’s widely acclaimed recent book, Why Jesus? (Abingdon) and its relevance for the vocation of Christian preaching. The workshop is designed for preachers and for those who listen to sermons.

PREACHING THE VERBS

Was the topic of the presentation of Dr. Anna Carter Florence at the Spring Preaching Workshop. This workshop was Monday, March 7, 2011, at Cherry Log Christian Church. Dr. Carter Florence is the Peter Marshall Assistant Professor of Preaching at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, GA.  She says, “If you do a quick survey of any Bible passage, you’ll find that what is true in life is also true in Scripture: the verbs dominate. Not adjectives, verbs.

It’s what we do and don’t do that preoccupies human beings. And it’s the verbs we cannot imagine for ourselves (live, liberate, forgive, resurrect) that the church offers, and that we reach for, week after week. So what happens when we read Scriptures and let the verbs lead?”

In this workshop, Dr. Carter Florence invited us to read the Biblical “script” by focusing on the verbs that are given and chosen by the characters. What new things will we see and hear in both our sacred text and our human drama when we connect the verbs? How can that, in turn, change and renew our preaching?