Book Reviews

Gardner C. Taylor and Samuel Proctor; We Have This Ministry: The Heart of the Pastor's Vocation; Valley Forge, PA: Judson Press, 1996. 152 pp. $14.00In We Have This Ministry, Gardner C. Taylor and Samuel Procto... Continue Reading...

It's summer, and that means it's time for barbeque, beaches, and books!For pastors, summer usually means some vacation time; for the fortunate ones, several weeks of church-provided study leave may be on the ho... Continue Reading...

Harold T. Bryson, Expository Preaching: The Art of Preaching Through a Book of the Bible (Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 1995), 448 pages, hardcover, $29.99.Expository preaching is one of the most frequently cit... Continue Reading...

Warren W. Wiersbe, Developing a Christian Imagination (Wheaton, IL: Viktor Books, 1995), 286 pp., paper.This companion volume to Wiersbe's outstanding Preaching and Teaching With Imagination (Victor, 1994) is a... Continue Reading...

Calvin Miller, Marketplace Preaching (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1995), 188 pp., paper, $12.99.Calvin Miller -- professor of communications and homiletics at Southwestern Baptist Seminary and a contributing edi... Continue Reading...

Concise Encyclopedia of Preaching, William H. Willimon and Richard Lischer, editors (Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1995), 518 pages, paper, $35.The problem with a book like the Concise Encyclopedia o... Continue Reading...

Samuel D. Proctor, The Certain Sound of the Trumpet: Crafting a Sermon of Authority (Valley Forge: Judson Press, 1994), paper, 137 pages, $12.Mention the word authority among ministerial colleagues and you're l... Continue Reading...

Among many outstanding volumes on preaching in recent years, one of the best -- and the "best of class" in 1994 -- is Christ-Centered Preaching by Bryan Chapell, published by Baker Book House.In an age of growi... Continue Reading...

The age of the "Information Superhighway" was declared just as the 1994 publishing season was begun, leading some pundits and self-declared "futurologists" to predict the impending death of the printed page. We... Continue Reading...