Bryan Chapell's companion to Christ-Centered Preaching, showing the method at work in full sermons with commentary on how each was built. Read more.
Having set out the principles in Christ-Centered Preaching, Bryan Chapell here supplies the examples. The book presents sermons he has prepared and preached, drawn from a range of genres and texts, and surrounds each with explanation: what the text's Fallen Condition Focus was, why the sermon was structured as it was, and how the move to Christ was made from the passage itself rather than tacked on at the end.
For preachers, the value of a worked example is that it exposes the decisions a finished sermon normally hides. Chapell shows a redemptive approach to Scripture being fleshed out in real pulpit work, including the places where a text resists easy handling. Useful as a companion volume in a preaching course, and useful on its own to anyone who has read the method and wants to see it done.