Book Review: The 12 Essential Skills For Great Preaching In The 12 Essential Skills For Great Preaching 1 Wayne McDill brings the strength of thirty five years of pastoral experience to bear on the task of preparing to deliver sermons from the biblical texts. Currently serving as a professor of preaching at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, he has also written Evangelism in a Tangled… Read More
Book Review: Preaching The Whole Bible as Christian Scripture As a lecturer in Old Testament, biblical theology and hermeneutics at Moore Theological College in Sydney, Australia, Graeme Goldsworthy is certainly qualified to write on the subject of Preaching The Whole Bible as Christian Scripture: The Application of Biblical Theology to Expository Preaching. 1 Goldsworthy’s purpose in writing Preaching The Whole Bible as Christian Scripture… Read More
Book Review: Preaching Christ from the Old Testament Sidney Greidanus’ experience as a pastor and professor of preaching enabled him, when confronted with the task of offering “Christocentric Preaching from the Old Testament” (xii) as an elective course in preaching, to write his own textbook when he was not able to find a suitable work. Thus, Preaching Christ from the Old Testament: A… Read More
Book Review: Christ Centered Preaching A decade as a pastor and eighteen years in the academy have both served to inform the writing of Bryan Chapell’s Christ-Centered Preaching: Redeeming the Expository Sermon.1 In this work Chapell attempts to rescue the expository sermon from the time-bound and tradition-laden methods that are causing it to become more and more irrelevant in contemporary… Read More
Book Review: Lectures On Revival After his conversion at age twenty-nine, Charles Grandison Finney brought his legal training and his own theological views to bear on the landscape of American Protestantism. In Lectures on Revival, 1 he advocates the lessons he learned during a decade spent conducting revivals during America’s Second Great Awakening. The openness and candidness of these lectures… Read More