Book Reviews

David Buttrick. Preaching the New and the Now. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 164 pp. ISBN 0-664-25789-5Over the last decade, the influence of David Buttrick has grown as he has become one of the most... Continue Reading...

Massey, James Earl. The Burdensome Joy of Preaching. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1998. 98pp. ISBN 0-687-05069-3.Those who have heard James Earl Massey preach, or teach about preaching or have read his books abou... Continue Reading...

Stephen F. and David L. Olford, Anointed Expository Preaching, Nashville: Broadman & Holman. 1998. 369 pp. ISBN 080546085-3; $24.99Stephen Olford has had a distinguished career as pastor, evangelist and evangel... Continue Reading...

George Barna, The Second Coming of the Church, Nashville: Word Publishing, Hardcover $18.99, ISBN 0-8499-1490-6.In George Barna's latest work, he provides hard medicine for church leaders. Armed with statistica... Continue Reading...

No preacher in the twentieth century has had such influence on the church and on the world as Billy Graham. Over more than a half-century of ministry, he has moved beyond his identity as an evangelist to become... Continue Reading...

Tony Campolo, Following Jesus Without Embarrassing God, Dallas: Word, 1997, ISBN 0-8499-4608-0In his inimitable style, Tony Campolo has done it again. In Following Jesus without Embarrassing God, he attempts to... Continue Reading...

Walter Brueggemann. Cadences of Home: Preaching Among Exiles. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press. 1997. 155 pp.I'm mad at Walter Brueggemann. I've been wanting to embark on a writing project and have been ... Continue Reading...

Mike Graves. The Sermon as Symphony: Preaching the Literary Forms of the New Testament. Valley Forge: Judson Press. 1997. 289 pp. ISBN 0-8170-1257-5Mike Graves, Professor of Homiletics at Central Baptist Semina... Continue Reading...

Keeping Life in Perspective: Sharpening Your Sense of What's Important by Jim Henry with Marilyn Jeffcoat (Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 1996), 208 pp., hardcover, $16.99.Moral Earthquakes and Secret Faults: Pr... Continue Reading...

Carl, William J., Jr. ed. Graying Gracefully: Preaching to Older Adults. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1997. 156 pp.Most preachers have noticed that the heads of those to whom they preach seem to be ... Continue Reading...