“the primary purpose of sermon introductions is to produce imbalance for the sake of engagement.” — Eugene L. Lowry Copy Share Image
“The term plot is key both to sermon preparation and to sermon presentation.” — Eugene L. Lowry Copy Share Image
“So it is that once a person has settled on the question as to what is wrong, the choice of cures is… — Eugene L. Lowry Human condition Copy Share Image
“Transforming our intuitions into articulate form is precisely the purpose of this book.” — Eugene L. Lowry Book Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a sermon idea seemed to emerge on its own, possessed of its own power, and required a developmental process more akin… — Eugene L. Lowry Copy Share Image
“Whatever the thinking of Prof. Lowry and his editor, they obviously share the conviction that The Homiletical Plot can sit comfortably on… — Eugene L. Lowry Books Copy Share Image
“Why not conceive every sermon as narrative—whether or not a parable or other story is involved?” — Eugene L. Lowry Copy Share Image
“Says Robert Roth in Story and Reality: “For the Greeks . . . words were definitions. . . . For the Hebrews, on the contrary, words were descriptions.” 14” — Eugene L. Lowry Language Copy Share Image
“It is not enough to probe the question of what the text is saying. It is equally important to discover why it… — Eugene L. Lowry Truth Seeking Copy Share Image
“Hence there is more action or natural movement in describing, for example, a God who walks in the garden in the cool… — Eugene L. Lowry Nature Copy Share Image
“So it is that much homiletical advice tends to function in reverse—that is, it works reasonably well in evaluating a sermon already… — Eugene L. Lowry Little help Copy Share Image
“I noted a second time appreciation for the author’s making room for intuition in the sermon process. Most of us give lip… — Eugene L. Lowry Art Copy Share Image
“A sermonic idea is a homiletical bind; a sermon is a narrative plot!” — Eugene L. Lowry Copy Share Image
“The plain fact was he knew how to do it intuitively, but he could not articulate what it was that he did.” — Eugene L. Lowry Copy Share Image
“And so I shall prefer to speak of the continuity or the movement of a sermon, rather than of its outline.” — Eugene L. Lowry Copy Share Image
“It is indeed The Story, and our task is to tell it, to form it, to fashion it—not to “organize” it.” — Eugene L. Lowry Copy Share Image
“Note, too, that fiction writers inevitably catch their central characters in situations involving ambiguities, not contradictories. The marshal in High Noon was… — Eugene L. Lowry Writing Copy Share Image
“The set of outline notes of our poorer sermons, however, will likely reveal that they were shaped by the nature of their… — Eugene L. Lowry Happiness Copy Share Image
“One might say that any sermon involves both an “itch” and a “scratch” and sermons are born when at least implicitly in… — Eugene L. Lowry Psychology Copy Share Image
“In the case of the movie High Noon, it is obvious that the viewers are not held by their intrinsic interest in… — Eugene L. Lowry Law enforcement Copy Share Image
