Product Description: No one has had more impact and influence on the craft of preaching in the last several decades than Fred Craddock.After his retirement from a distinguished teaching career, he became free to share his wisdom with a wider audience...read more

Product Description: Prominent biblical scholars M. Eugene Boring and Fred B. Craddock present this new one-volume commentary on the New Testament. Writing from the fundamental conviction that the New Testament is the people's book. Boring and Craddock examine the theological themes and messages of Scripture that speak to the life of discipleship...read more

Product Description: Using Luke's own prologue as the guideline for his commentary, Fred B. Craddock calls attention to the continuities between Jesus and his heritage in Judaism and the church after him. Like Luke, Craddock assumes the reader is not only a believer but also a leader in the community of faith...read more

Product Description: Revised and Expanded Edition! When originally published in 1978, Overhearing the Gospel introduced "narrative preaching" and forever changed the shape of contemporary preaching. Now a new generation of preachers can learn from the master himself in this revised and expanded edition of Craddock's groundbreaking method...read more

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Product Description: A collection of sermons on a variety of texts and topics, all showing the wit, gifted turn of phrase, narrative skill, and biblical insight of Fred Craddock.

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Product Description: Fred B. Craddock examines the letters of First and Second Peter and Jude, asking, what kind of literature is it? who wrote the letter? to whom was the letter written? and for what purpose was the letter written? Craddock's answers let us draw from these often undervalued epistles an awareness of what is involved in living a Christian life in this world...read more

Product Description: This is the third and final volume in the comprehensive three-volume set of commentaries on all of the lectionary texts for Sunday reading (including the Psalms) and for special days in all communions, treating the readings for each year in a single volume...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This is the second volume in a comprehensive three-volume set of commentaries on all of the lectionary texts for Sunday reading (including the Psalms) and for special days in all communions, treating the readings for each year in a single volume...read more

Product Description: “Because the Bible is an ancient book, it invites the preacher back into its world in order to understand; because the Bible is the church’s Scripture, it moves forward into our world and addresses us here and now.” —from the author’s Introduction This is the first volume of a comprehensive three-volume set of commentaries of all of the lectionary texts for Sunday reading (including the Psalms) and for special days in all communions, treating the readings for each year in a single volume...read more

Provides commentaries written specifically for those who interpret the Bible through teaching and preaching in the church

Product Description: Painstakingly prepared for seminary students and clergy, this book answers the fundamental question: How does one prepare and deliver a sermon? Craddock's approach is practical, but also allows for concentrated study of any particular dimension of the process. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Follows common lectionary. Research and sermon helps by noted scholars.

Product Description: In this commentary, Fred Craddock focuses on the text of Philippians rather than on conversations among scholars about the text. His commentary on the text differs from many other commentaries in that issues of authorship, date, place of writing, integrity, of purpose are dealt with at points where the text itself raises these issues...read more

Product Description: A good tool for pastors and lay people who want to study the bible following passages from the Common Lectionary.