Contents

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Endorsement

Dedication

Preface

I. Imagination and Life

1.   The Tale of Two Preachers

2.   What Hushai Knew: People

3.   What Hushai Knew: The World around Him

4.   What Hushai Knew: Words

5.   Preacher, Tell Me a Story

6.   Skeletons in the Pulpit, Cadavers in the Pews

7.   The Hidden Destroyers

8.   The Mystery of Metaphor

II. Imagination and Scripture

9.   Pictures in the Pentateuch

10.   Pictures in the Historical Books

11.   Pictures in the Poetical Books

12.   Pictures in the Prophets

13.   Jesus, the Master Teacher/Preacher

14.   Pictures in the Book of Acts

15.   Pictures of the Church

16.   Pictures in the Apocalypse

III. Imagination and Biblical Preaching

17.   If You Don’t Talk to Your Bible, Your Bible Might Not Talk to You

18.   Taking Things Apart and Putting Things Together

19.   Imagination and Biographical Preaching

20.   Imagination and Comfort

21.   Messages for Special Days

22.   Imagination, Humor, and Preaching

23.   Imagination and Evangelistic Preaching

24.   Imagination and Creativity

25.   Preaching the Bible Biblically

APPENDICES

Appendix A—Questions Preachers and Teachers Ask

Appendix B—A Short History of the Imagination

Appendix C—Imagination and Myth

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index of Subjects

Index of Persons

Index of Major Biblical Images

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