The Gospel Coalition

Sidney Greidanus, emeritus professor of preaching at Calvin Theological Seminary and one of the most important thinkers on redemptive historical preaching, has a book coming out this Spring from Eerdmans: Preaching Christ from Ecclesiastes: Foundations for Expository Sermons (376 pp). It’s apparently a second edition, but I’d never heard of the first! Here’s a description:

Ecclesiastes is especially relevant for our culture — the Teacher confronts enticements like materialism, secularism, hedonism, human autonomy, and self-sufficiency. But how can preachers convey these important teachings to their congregations in a helpful way? Sidney Greidanus here does preachers a great service by providing the foundations for one or more series of expository sermons on Ecclesiastes. He breaks the book down in several ways, including: the boundaries of each preaching text, the text’s theme and goal, various ways to move to Christ in the New Testament, detailed exposition of the fifteen literary units, and application for today.

This looks to be in the same form as Greidanus’s Preaching Christ from Genesis, which look at the passages under the following headings:

1. Summary Introduction
2. Text/Context
3. Literary Features
4. The Plot Line
5. Theocentric Interpretation
6. Textual Theme and Goal
7. Ways to Preach Christ
8. Sermon Theme and Goal
9. The Sermon Form
10. The Sermon Exegesis