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The lectionary is a helpful homiletical tool. But there are times when lectionary preaching does not meet a congregation's needs.
Sermon Treks offers preachers and students an invigorating selection of new sermon-planning trails, for use as sermon series or for single sermons. The options presented here are practical and theologically responsible. Some are rooted in ancient forms of proclamation; others are new. All provide clear but creative guidance for the preacher, and a path that will lead to more effective sermons.
About the author
Ronald J. Allen is Professor of Preaching and Gospels and Letters, Emeritus, at Christian Theological Seminary. He is the author or editor of forty books including a volume on preaching as conversation with O. Wesley Allen Jr., The Sermon without End. He is also one of the editors of the three-volume Preaching God's Transforming Justice: A Lectionary Commentary and the widely used Patterns of Preaching: A Sermon Sampler, which overviews thirty-four ways of structuring sermons.
