Proclaiming God's Stories: How to Preach Old Testament Historical Narrative

From Genesis and Exodus through Job, Jonah, and Daniel, the Old Testament contains major portions of historical narrative. Developing a sermon from these lengthy, sometimes complicated stories can be daunting. In Proclaiming God s Stories, Joe Linares outlines the literary elements of Scripture and their role in handling narrative passages properly. He gives practical advice for preserving the arc of a narrative and describes how to incorporate the point of view in homiletics; how to transpose the plot into the sermon; and how to handle characters, setting, and dialogue. After presenting four models of sermonic structure, Linares demonstrates the propositional method using Genesis 3. The resulting sermon, rich with high-interest exposition and heart-probing application, showcases the eternal value of preaching Old Testament narrative.