Craig Skinner, Author at Preaching.com

The Creative Pulpit

We recently lost a good friend and fine preacher with the passing of long-time homiletics professor Craig Skinner. Just last month we featured his most recent book, The Creative Pulpit (1st Books Library) in our PreachingNow Book of the...

William Taylor: Preaching A Gospel for the Gold Rush

Craig Skinner

Half way through the nineteenth century not a single brick building could be found in the entire city of San Francisco, and only a few timber ones existed. Ninety percent of the then twenty thousand residents o... Continue Reading...

The Bullet That Broke a Preacher’s Heart<br/>How America’s Preeminent Pastoral Evangelist Found Pulpit Power

Craig Skinner

Many believe that the greatest address George W. Truett ever delivered was in May, 1920, when he preached from the steps of the United States Capitol in Washington D. C. where many U.S. Presidents have delivere... Continue Reading...

Tom, Tom, The Piper’s Son<br/>The Forgotten Story of Thomas: Preacher Son Of the Famous Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Craig Skinner

Although October 19, 1880 was a typically hot spring Sunday in Sydney yet, at 3.p.m. despite the heat, the Theater Royal crowded out with hundreds of Australians rushing in to the young preacher who bore the il... Continue Reading...

The Sofa That Swallowed a Sermon: The Preaching of De Witt Talmage

Craig Skinner

The seminary professor had recommended his young student, Thomas De Witt Talmage (1832-1902), as a candidate for the pulpit at the Reformed Church of Belville, New Jersey. When the occasion arrived he felt quit... Continue Reading...

Ambidextrous Ministry<br/>The Pastoral Value of Balance, Comfort, & Challenge In a Biblical Preaching Program

Craig Skinner

"(in)... truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left" (2 Cor. 6:7, RSV)Society largely views the ten to fifteen percent among us who are left- ha... Continue Reading...

Go for the Gold: Preaching and the Olympics

Craig Skinner

The opening ceremony for the 1996 International Olympic Summer Games in Atlanta, Georgia, is scheduled for Friday July 19 and the closing ceremony for Sunday August 4. This means that every church's congregatio... Continue Reading...

Miller volume provides blast against pulpit boredom

Craig Skinner

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...

Chapell Volume Offers ‘Redemptive Approach’ to Preaching

Craig Skinner

Bryan Chapell, Christ-Centered Preaching (Baker Book House, 1994), 374 pages, $24.99. Twenty years ago, in connection with some graduate studies, I reviewed the many hundreds of biblically-oriented homiletic... Continue Reading...

Plan Pulpit Cuisine That Builds Muscle, Pleases Palate

Craig Skinner

Put plenty into your sermons. After hearing some discourses I have often been reminded of the request of the farmer's boy to his missus when eating his broth, "Missus, I wish you would let that chicken run thro... Continue Reading...