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Instructor: Holly Heuer

E-mail: hollyheuer@ecentral.com

Office Hours: by appointment

Course Synopsis 

The post-modern church wants real preachers.  They are not so much interested in effective rhetoric, moral uprightness or even social media wizardry.  They want people who preach a gospel that has scoured their own souls.  Ironically, in an age when preachers can get a million great sermons at the touch of a finger, they can’t mimic others without risking what is most precious – their own authentic voice.   The Enneagram, a map of human reality,  gives the preacher a tool to identify the unconscious pull of their personality.  It supports waking up to our habitual patterns, so that we can choose to become more present to our experience.  When preachers know themselves, and can be themselves, their sermons are more nourishing.  

Books for the Course

Required Texts for BV 3046:  The Preacher as Self:  Cultivating an Authentic Voice

  • Almaas, A.H., The Unfolding Now:  Realizing Your True Nature through the Practice of Presence.   ISBN-10: 1590305590  ISBN-13: 978-1590305591
  •  Jackson, Cari, For the Souls of Black Folks:  Reimagining Black Preaching for 21st Century Liberation    ISBN-10: 1620323001        ISBN-13: 978-1620323007
  •  Placher, William C., Narratives of a Vulnerable God:  Christ, Theology and Scripture.   ISBN-10: 0664255345        ISBN-13: 978-0664255343
  •  Riso, Don and Hudson, Russ, The Wisdom of the Enneagram:  The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types.      ISBN-10: 0553378201        ISBN-13: 978-0553378207
  • Schlafer, David J., Your Way with God’s Word:  Discovering Your Distinctive Preaching Voice.  ISBN-10: 1561011185         ISBN-13: 978-1561011186

 Suggested Texts:

  • Allen, Ronald J., Patterns of Preaching:  A Sermon Sampler.  ISBN-10: 0827229534        ISBN-13: 978-0827229532
  • Rohr, Richard and Ebert, Andreas, The Enneagram:  A Christian Perspective ISBN-10: 0824519507   ISBN-13: 978-0824519506
  • Craddock, Fred. B., Preaching  ISBN-10: 0687659949  ISBN-13: 978-0687659944
  • Maitri, Sandra, The Spiritual Dimension of the Enneagram.  ISBN-10: 1585420816  ISBN-13: 978-1585420810
  • Tolomeo, Diane, Gervais, Pearl, and De Roo, Remi J., Biblical Characters and the Enneagram:  Images of Transformation  ISBN-10: 0921513135 ISBN-13: 978-0921513131

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