Homiletics: Preaching in the Scottish and Dutch Reformed Line

1. Lectures Listen to the lectures in order. Those marked supplementary are optional.

   • Catechetical Preaching (Christ the Center) Alan D. Strange and Cornelis Venema 69 min (mp3 duration read with ffprobe from the episode page's audio file) Open source Doctrinal Mid-America Reformed Seminary (professors) American subscribers (1788 text). None of their items in this stream touches WCF 20.4, 23 or 31. No comparison heading needed in this stream; keep the standing note on the page.
   • Calvin as a Servant of the Word of God (Christ the Center, with Glen J. Clary) Glen J. Clary 50 min (mp3 duration read with ffprobe from the episode page's audio file) Open source Doctrinal Orthodox Presbyterian Church (pastor, Immanuel OPC, West Collingswood NJ, per the episode page) American subscribers (1788 text). None of their items in this stream touches WCF 20.4, 23 or 31. No comparison heading needed in this stream; keep the standing note on the page.
   • The Drama of Preaching (Christ the Center) Eric Watkins 62 min (mp3 duration read with ffprobe from the episode page's audio file) Open source Supplementary Covenant OPC, St. Augustine, Florida (per the episode page at the time of recording) American subscribers (1788 text). None of their items in this stream touches WCF 20.4, 23 or 31. No comparison heading needed in this stream; keep the standing note on the page.
   • A Life in the Preaching Ministry (Christ the Center, with Eric Alexander) Eric Alexander 78 min (mp3 duration read with ffprobe from the episode page's audio file) Open source Supplementary Church of Scotland (minister ordained for over fifty years, per the episode page) Church of Scotland minister; that church holds the Confession only under the 1910/1921 Declaratory Articles and is not a subscribing body in the school's sense. Supplementary only, labelled as pastoral testimony; never doctrinal.

   Total: 4.3 hours

2. Reading Read in the order given. Public-domain and free texts are linked; purchases are optional and never required.

   • The Arte of Prophecying (Perkins), in The Works of William Perkins, vol. 2 (1631) William Perkins Open source Primary text 1631. Public domain Pre-Westminster or non-Scottish Puritans used as primary texts. Keep: historic divines in the Westminster line (Perkins's method shaped the Directory; Watson was a Presbyterian of the Assembly's generation).
   • The Directory for the Publick Worship of God (1645 text, 1880 reprint): Of the Preaching of the Word Westminster Assembly with the Commissioners of the Church of Scotland 104 scanned pages for the whole Directory Open source Primary text 1645 (reprint 1880). Public domain
   • For the Work of the Ministry: A Manual of Homiletical and Pastoral Theology William Garden Blaikie 440 scanned pages (archive.org) Open source Doctrinal 1873. Public domain
   • What Is Faithful Preaching? Alan D. Strange Open source Doctrinal 2018. Free online American subscribers (1788 text). None of their items in this stream touches WCF 20.4, 23 or 31. No comparison heading needed in this stream; keep the standing note on the page.
   • The Necessity of Preaching in the Modern World (parts 1 to 3) Robert Letham Three parts: article ids 380 (Oct 2013), 387 (Nov 2013) and 394 (Dec 2013) Open source Doctrinal 2013. Free online American subscribers (1788 text). None of their items in this stream touches WCF 20.4, 23 or 31. No comparison heading needed in this stream; keep the standing note on the page.
   • Especially the Preaching of the Word Larry Wilson Open source Doctrinal 2006. Free online American subscribers (1788 text). None of their items in this stream touches WCF 20.4, 23 or 31. No comparison heading needed in this stream; keep the standing note on the page.
   • Sacred Rhetoric, or a Course of Lectures on Preaching Robert Lewis Dabney 376 scanned pages (archive.org) Open source Supplementary 1870. Public domain
   • Reformed Preaching: Proclaiming God's Word from the Heart of the Preacher to the Hearts of His People Joel R. Beeke 512 pages (publisher page: Crossway, hardcover, SKU 9781433559273) Open source Supplementary Purchase (optional)

   Total: 512 pages

3. Assignment Write a research paper of 30 pages on a topic drawn from the lectures and readings of this course. Argue from Scripture, the Westminster Standards (1647 text) and the Three Forms of Unity, cite the primary sources you read, and state the points on which the sources differ.

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4. In Spanish (supplementary) Spanish-language lectures and readings, supplementary. The English lectures above remain the core; strong English lectures are translated rather than replaced by weaker Spanish ones.

   • Introduccion a la homiletica (15 lessons, 13 MP3 files; lesson 10 was a workshop) Larry Trotter (Lawrence C. Trotter N., Ph.D.) 13 audio files (1-Naturaleza_Necesidad through 13-ComoLeerLaBiblia); durations not printed Open source Supplementary Seminario Reformado Guadalajara; Trotter is pastor of Florida Coast Church (PCA) and adjunct at Knox Theological Seminary PCA minister (confirmed on floridacoastchurch.org: 'Florida Coast Church (PCA)'), so a Westminster subscriber on the 1788 American text; the seminary serves the Iglesia Nacional Presbiteriana de Mexico (Presbiterio del Bajio), which also uses the American 23.3. His lectures on WCF chs. 20, 23 and 31 are therefore...
   • Introduccion a la homiletica: descripcion del curso y apuntes (PDF) Larry Trotter (Lawrence C. Trotter N., Ph.D.) 27 pages (pdfinfo) Open source Supplementary Free PCA minister (confirmed on floridacoastchurch.org: 'Florida Coast Church (PCA)'), so a Westminster subscriber on the 1788 American text; the seminary serves the Iglesia Nacional Presbiteriana de Mexico (Presbiterio del Bajio), which also uses the American 23.3. His lectures on WCF chs. 20, 23 and 31 are therefore...
   • Homiletica: Predicando la gracia, un mensaje cristocentrico (Instituto Biblico Reformado de Colombia / MINTS; 'Homiletica.doc') Instituto Biblico Reformado de Colombia (IBRC), 'escritas por diversos autores evangelicos' Word document, 684 KB Open source Supplementary Free Anonymous 'diversos autores evangelicos'; no confessional standard stated; copying forbidden without permission. Supplementary only, link only; never the sole source for a homiletics unit (Trotter's lectures and the Directory for Publick Worship carry the unit).

Every lecture and reading carries its role. "Under review" means the teacher's subscription to the Westminster Standards or the Three Forms of Unity is not yet established; "Read as comparison" means the material teaches the 1788 American text of WCF 20.4, 23 or 31 or of Larger Catechism Q.109, which the school reads beside the 1647 text. Nothing has been removed.