Expositional Preaching
Book Review: The Priority of Preaching, by Christopher Ash
Review by Alistair Begg | 9Marks Journal: Book Reviews on the Mission of the Church | 10.27.2010All in all I found this short book to be as helpful as anything that I’ve read in a long while on expository preaching. I commend it warmly to all.
Training Pastors
By D. Jackman, M. Dever | 08.27.2010Can you “make” a preacher or is preaching simply a gift? Find out in this interview with David Jackman, founder of the Cornhill Training Course.
What should a pastor do whose people don’t like expositional preaching?
9MarksBook Review: Preaching the Whole Bible as Christian Scripture, by Graeme Goldsworthy
Review by Paul Alexander | 9Marks Journal: Preaching | 03.05.2010Read this book, and you’ll not only want to re-read it, you’ll want to re-read your Bible.
Book Review: Preaching Christ in All of Scripture, by Edmund Clowney
Review by Paul Alexander | 9Marks Journal: Preaching | 03.05.2010This book is worth having on your shelf for the primary reason that it will encourage you to preach Christ himself from the Old Testament.
Book Review: Preaching Parables to Postmoderns, by Brian Stiller
Review by Carl Trueman | 9Marks Journal: Preaching | 03.05.2010In the end, I was perplexed by the book. There was plenty of thought-provoking material, but there was also a rather contrived view of postmodernism.
Book Review: Preaching Christ from the Old Testament, by Sidney Greidanus
Review by Aaron Menikoff | 9Marks Journal: Preaching | 03.05.2010Preaching Christ from the Old Testament is an excellent resource that has yet to be replaced.
Book Review: Him We Proclaim, by Dennis Johnson
Review by Aaron Menikoff | 9Marks Journal: Preaching | 03.05.2010There are a myriad of books on preaching, but Johnson believes that the Bible is finally the best guidebook for preaching the Bible.
Book Review: The Faithful Preacher, by Thabiti M. Anyabwile
Review by Ken Jones | 9Marks Journal: Race and Ethnicity | 03.03.2010The Faithful Preacher is indeed an important, insightful, and invigorating work that should benefit all who read it—whether Black or White, clergy or laity.
Book Review: Kindled Fire, by Zack Eswine
Review by Kevin McFadden | 9Marks Journal: Multi-site Churches | 03.02.2010Eswine has done us a great service by drawing together so much material on Spurgeon into one place.
Book Review: Christians at the Cross, by N. T. Wright
Review by Thomas R. Schreiner | 9Marks Journal: Marriage & Pastors' Wives | 03.02.2010We can be grateful for some of the themes sounded in this book. Still, the lack of urgency about our need to repent and believe in the gospel is a blind-spot in Wright.
Life and Word-Centered Ministry (with William Taylor)
By M. Dever, W. Taylor | 03.01.2010William Taylor, rector of St. Helen’s in London, discusses good preaching, bad theology, training pastors and more.
Preach to the Non-Christian, Christian, and Church Member
By Aaron Menikoff | 9Marks Journal: Preaching | 02.25.2010Yes, the preacher should be sensitive to the unchurched. But if we target the unchurched alone, the message may be lost or so diluted that God’s people become malnourished.
Preaching Up: Applying the Word of God to Midlife and Beyond
By Israel Haas | 9Marks Journal: Preaching | 02.25.2010I’m 29 years old. Can I apply the Scriptures effectively to the lives of people twice my age who live in a world without YouTube and iPods and dreams as big as the Montana sky?
Life and Preaching with Kent Hughes
By K. Hughes, M. Dever | 03.25.2008Proud to be a Protestant? R. Kent Hughes, pastor emeritus at College Church in Wheaton, Illinois, discusses his 40 years of pastoral ministry with Mark Dever.