Book Reviews

Warren W. Wiersbe, The Dynamics of Preaching. (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1999). ISBN 0-8010-9089-X. Paper, 173 pages. $10.99.Few people know preaching as well as Warren Wiersbe. This gifted preacher and Bible ... Continue Reading...

For the first time in Preaching's 15-year publishing history, our "Book of the Year" is actually two books. But they are united by a single factor: Haddon Robinson.Robinson is Harold John Ockenga Distinguished ... Continue Reading...

The distinction between a book collection and a library is fundamental for the preacher. The working preacher's library is indeed a collection of books, but it is a collection of books put to work. The books in... Continue Reading...

The flourishing of the Homiletics programs in many seminaries and the increased number of those who are seeking to make their mark on the field insures that there will be no shortage of new books on preaching i... Continue Reading...

I feel a little like the Israelites in Numbers 11:31 when they found themselves three feet deep in quails. It's not three feet deep but there is software all over my office, everything from Bible study, worship... Continue Reading...

Jerry Vines and Jim Shaddix, Power in the Pulpit: How to Prepare and Deliver Expository Sermons (Chicago: Moody Press, 1999). Hardcover, 391 pages. ISBN 0-8024-7740-2. $29.99.This book combines and expands two ... Continue Reading...

Jeter, Joseph R., Crisis Preaching: Personal and Public. Nashville: Abingdon. 178 pp. Paper. ISBN 0-687-7392-8.Ministry is the work of dealing with crisis. It's good, fitting and necessary to plan a preaching p... Continue Reading...

Henderson, David. Culture Shift: Communicating God's Truth to Our Changing World. Grand Rapids: Baker, 254 pp. ISBN 0-8010-9059-8.There is little or no disagreement with the old Bob Dylan tune, "The times they ... Continue Reading...

Willhite, Keith and Gibson, Scott M., eds. The Big Idea of Biblical Preaching: Connecting the Bible to People. Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1998. 199p. ISBN 0-8010-9066-0.Haddon Robinson (a contributing editor of... Continue Reading...

The past year has produced a number of outstanding volumes on preaching. (Mark Johnson's review, beginning on page 12, surveys many of these.) Given the high quality of so many titles, how can one book be singl... Continue Reading...