Online Course
Persuasion
It's not enough to get a passage right. We also need to get it across. Preaching requires homiletical skills, from understanding our audience to making powerful applications. This course provides instruction to give students tools, models, and opportunities for understanding and using contemporary homiletics (informed by classical rhetoric) to aid biblical exposition.
$24
Instructors
Jeremy Meeks
Director of the Chicago Course on Preaching
Jeremy is the Director and Lead Instructor of the Chicago Course on Preaching. He is also the Resident Pastor for Ministry Apprenticeships at Christ Church Chicago. Previously, he served as a pastor in Nashville, TN and Nicaragua. He studied at Liberty University and Trinity Graduate School before completing a PhD in Theological Ethics at the University of Aberdeen. Jeremy was the Director of Spanish-Language Initiatives of the Charles Simeon Trust until 2019. He continues to regularly instruct at Workshops around the world.
David Helm
Lead Pastor, Christ Church Chicago
David serves as the senior pastor of Christ Church Chicago and Chairman of the Board of the Charles Simeon Trust, an organization dedicated to the sound preaching of God’s Word. Before that, he served as Lead Pastor in the Hyde Park congregation of Holy Trinity Church. A graduate of Wheaton College, and Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, David is ordained in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA). For Crossway, he authored 1 & 2 Peter and Jude, The Big Picture Story Bible, and contributed to Preach the Word: Essays on Expository Preaching in Honor of Kent Hughes. He also authored One-to-One Bible Reading for Matthias Media and the 9Marks volume Expositional Preaching.
H.B. Charles, Jr.
Pastor, Shiloh Metropolitan Baptist Church
H.B. Charles, Jr. is the pastor-teacher of Shiloh Metropolitan Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Florida. H.B. has served in this role since 2008. He also serves as the Southern Baptist Convention Pastors’ Conference’s first African-American president. Prior to joining his present church, H.B. led the Mt. Sinai Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles, California for almost 18 years. Outside of his ministry to and with his congregation, H.B. regularly speaks at churches, conferences, and conventions around the country, and he is also the author of several books.
Bryan Chapell
Senior Pastor, Grace Presbyterian Church
Bryan Chapell is Senior Pastor of Grace Presbyterian Church in Peoria and formerly president and professor of practical theology at Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri. His Bible teaching can be heard daily via the Internet on Living Christ 360 (www.livingchrist360.com). Raised in Memphis, Tennessee, Dr. Chapell was a pastor for approximately ten years before joining the faculty of Covenant Seminary, the seminary of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), in 1985. He is the author of many articles and numerous books, including Praying Backwards: Transform Your Prayer Life by Beginning in Jesus’ Name, Why Do We Baptize Infants?, Holiness by Grace, Each for the Other, and Christ-Centered Preaching, a preaching textbook now in multiple editions and many languages that has established him as one of the nation’s foremost teachers of homiletics.
Mike Bullmore
Senior Pastor, CrossWay Community Church
Mike serves as Senior Pastor of CrossWay Community Church in Bristol, Wisconsin. Mike earned a diploma in Bible and Theology at Moody Bible Institute and a BA in Biblical Studies from Wheaton College. He then earned an MDiv and ThM from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, followed by a PhD in Rhetorical History and Criticism from Northwestern University. Prior to leading the launch of CrossWay Community Church in 1998, Mike served for 15 years as an Associate Professor of Homiletics and Pastoral Theology, as well as chairman of the Practical Theology Department at TEDS. He also serves on the council of The Gospel Coalition.
Lesson 1
Free Lesson: An Introduction to Persuasion
Jeremy Meeks In this lesson, Jeremy Meeks introduces us to what is persuasion and its purpose and place for preachers. Go To LessonLesson 2
Ethos
David Helm In this lesson, David Helm shows that a preacher's character is an essential part of establishing credibility en route to persuading any audience.Lesson 3
Argument
David Helm In this lesson, David Helm makes the case that it isn't simply enough to give information in our sermons. Rather, in our sermons we must aim to convince our hearers of a passage's main point.Lesson 4
Audience
David Helm In this lesson, David Helm encourages us to consider our audience and how we might present our argument most persuasively to them.Lesson 5
Application
David Helm In this lesson, David Helm offers six practical strategies for how make faithful and potent application from a biblical text.Lesson 6
Aspects of Delivery
Mike Bullmore Mike Bullmore shows us how we can better serve our congregations by considering aspects of our delivery.Lesson 7
Prayer
H.B. Charles, Jr. In this opening lesson, H. B. Charles, Jr. argues that since prayer was a priority for Jesus in his ministry, it must be a priority for us as well.Bonus Feature
The Place and Proportion of Application?
Bryan Chapell In this lesson, Bryan Chapell helps us think through what application can look like in our sermons.Bonus Feature
The Power of Application
Bryan Chapell In this instruction, Bryan Chapell demonstrates that application is an essential element of every sermon.Downloads