Book Reviews

Warren W. Wiersbe, Preaching & Teaching with Imagination: The Quest for Biblical Ministry (Wheaton: Victor Books, 1994), 389 pages.Preaching has received some hefty shots in the arm in recent years. Stimulating... Continue Reading...

Summer, said the poet Archibald MacLeish, "is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England." Yet it is also preachers longing for time to read and for books worthy o... Continue Reading...

William H. Willimon, The Intrusive Word: Preaching to the Unbaptized, (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1994), paper, 144 pages, $10.99.Few writers have as much to say to preachers (or say it as well) ... Continue Reading...

Marsha G. Witten, All Is Forgiven: The Secular Message in American Protestantism (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993), cloth, 179 pp., $19.95.Anyone interested in tracking the shifting trends in th... Continue Reading...

Preachers face a daunting task in understanding the social and cultural changes which are altering the face of their congregations and communities. In A Generation of Seekers, Wade Clark Roof offers a significa... Continue Reading...

Handbook of Contemporary Preaching, Michael Duduit, editor (Nashville: Broadman Press, 1993), 607 pp., cloth, $34.99.This book was written by more writers than the Bible. Forty-nine different theorists and prea... Continue Reading...

Raymond Bailey (Contributing Editor), Hermeneutics for Preaching: Approaches to Contemporary Interpretations of Scripture (Nashville: Broadman Press, 1992), $15.95, hardcover, 223 pp.Hermeneutics for Preaching ... Continue Reading...

Wade Clark Roof, A Generation of Seekers: The Spiritual Journeys of the Baby Boom Generation (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1993), 294 pp., cloth.By now, everyone in America has heard of the baby boomers. Many ... Continue Reading...

Nature, God & Pulpit by Elizabeth Achtemeier (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1992), $16.99, hardcover, 206 pp.Few topics occupy more media time these days than environmental issues. Last fall, Vi... Continue Reading...

David L. Larsen, The Evangelism Mandate: Recovering the Centrality of Gospel Preaching (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 1992), 244 pp., paper.Have Christian preachers gone soft on evangelism? That is the charge le... Continue Reading...