Sermon - Types

Types

There are a number of different types of sermons, that differ both in their subject matter and by their intended audience, and accordingly not every preacher is equally well-versed in every type. The types of sermons are:

• Topical sermons - concerned with a particular subject of current concern;
• Liturgical sermons - sermons that explain the liturgy, why certain things are done during a service, such as why communion is offered and what it means.
• Biographical sermons - tracing the story of a particular biblical character through a number of parts of the Bible.
• Historical sermons - which seek to portray a biblical story within its historical perspective.
• Evangelistic sermons - seeking to convert the congregation or bring them back to their previous faith through a recounting of the foundational story of the religion, in Christianity, the Good News.
• Expository preaching - exegesis, that is sermons that expound and explain a text to the congregation.
• Redemptive-Historical Preaching - sermons that takes into consideration the context of any given text within the broader history of salvation as recorded in the canon of the bible.
• Narrative sermons - which tell a story, often a parable, or a series of stories, to make a moral point.
• Illuminative sermons, also known as proems (petihta) - which connect an apparently unrelated biblical verse or religious question with the current calendrical event or festival.

Sermons can be both written and spoken out loud.