Saint Paul Preaching Professor Mike Graves has a New Book on Amazon.com

Saint Paul McElvaney Preaching Professor Dr. Mike Graves has written his latest book as a nonfiction narrative. Readers can immerse themselves as a participant in a seminary classroom. Through these pages you will come to know a professor and his students and learn along with them about narrative preaching.

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Once a new trend, narrative preaching is now older than most styles of preaching. As the professor notes, two things went wrong with narrative styles: over time the church became biblically and theologically illiterate, and the promised stress on experience didn’t always measure up to the weight of the gospel.

Readers will experience the stories of some modern storytellers-Flannery O’Connor, Alice Walker, and others-to see what they might teach us about narratives of depth.