Preaching Christ from Ecclesiastes

As Sidney Greidanus points out, the biblical book of Ecclesiastes is especially relevant for our contemporary culture because it confronts such secular enticements as materialism, hedonism, cut-throat competition, and self-sufficiency. But how can preachers best convey the ancient Teacher's message to congregations today?A respected expert in both hermeneutics and homiletics, Greidanus does preachers a great service by here by providing the foundations for a series of expository sermons on Ecclesiastes. He walks students and preachers through the steps from text to sermon for all of the book's fifteen major literary units, explores various ways to move from Ecclesiastes to Jesus Christ in the New Testament, and offer insightful expositions that help the preacher in sermon production butomit the theoretical andoften impractical discussions in many commentaries."One of the those rare volumes that should be read by all preachers who take the task of interpretation and proclamationwith great seriousness."---Preaching"Will help preachers develop homileticalo muscle memory that will transform them from workmen into artisans."---Calvin Theological Journal"Sidney Greidanus is one of the most gifted advocates of `redemptive historical' preaching....In a time when there is much confusion about what it meansto preach in fidelity to the Scriptures, we very much need the lessons that he offers us."----Richard J Mouw Fuller Theological Seminary"A master stroke from one of the sminal thinkers and writers in homiletics".---Bryan Chaell Covenant Theological Seminary"A master stroke from one of the seminal thinkers and writers in homiletics"---Bryan Chapell Covenant Theological Seminary