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Charles Edward Jefferson: Preaching the Great Doctrines

Charles Edward Jefferson was born at Cambridge, Ohio, on August 29, 1860, the son of Dr. Milton Jefferson, a native of Virginia, and his wife, Ella Sachet, born in the Isle of Guernsey. It was a Methodist famil... Continue Reading...

Charles G. Finney and His Impact on Evangelistic Preaching

Lewis Drummond

"I was powerfully converted on the morning of the 10th of October 1821. On the evening of the same day, I received overwhelming infillings of the Holy Spirit, that went through me, as it seemed to me, body and ... Continue Reading...

George Campbell Morgan: A Man of the Word

John Bishop

G. Campbell Morgan was born at Tetbury, England, on December 9, 1883. Shortly afterwards the family moved to Cardiff and attended Roath Road Wesleyan Methodist Church.Morgan preached his first sermon at the age... Continue Reading...

Thomas Chalmers: Preaching with Courage and Power

John Bishop

"On Friday, June 4, 1847, one of the most amazing funeral processions ever seen in Edinburgh made its way to the Grange Cemetery. Well nigh half the population of the city lined the route. It was the dust of a ... Continue Reading...

John Henry Newman: Pursuit of truth in preaching

John Bishop

This year we celebrate the centenary of John Henry Newman's death. The new ecumenical interest in Newman has centered largely in his parochial preaching in sermons he first gave as an Anglican and reissued as a... Continue Reading...

Clarence E. Macartney: Evangelize or Perish

John Bishop

Clarence E. Macartney was born at Northwood, Ohio in 1879. He studied at Pomona College, the University of Wisconsin and Princeton Seminary. He was pastor of these downtown churches: the First Presbyterian Chur... Continue Reading...

Ralph W. Sockman: 20th Century Circuit Rider

John Bishop

For forty-four years Ralph Washington Sockman stood as a towering pulpit beacon in the city of New York, serving as senior pastor of Christ Church Methodist on Park Avenue.At the time of his retirement in 1961,... Continue Reading...

W. L. Watkinson: The Touch of Reality

John Bishop

It is a great pity that no biography of W. L. Watkinson has been published. All we have in addition to his sermons is a slight but precious volume Letters of Two Friends, a record of correspondence between Watk... Continue Reading...

George Herbert Morrison: Preaching with Clarity and Conviction

John Bishop

George Herbert Morrison was the son of a minister, born in Glasgow October 2, 1866. His mother had been reading George Herbert, the 17th century devotional poet, before his birth, hence the Christian names give... Continue Reading...

One Century After the 1889 Yale Lectures: A Reflection on Broadus’ Homiletical Thought

Steve Reagles

Each year, around the country, recognized masters of the biblical "art" of preaching offer help and advice in scores of lecture series on preaching. The Sprunt, Warrack, Mullins, Payton, Hester, Jameson Jones L... Continue Reading...