Listening to Listeners: Homiletical Case Studies (Chalice Press) grew out of a study (funded by the Lilly Endowment) to evaluate how people listen to sermons. The authors - Joh McClure, Ron Allen, Dale Andrews, L. Susan Bond, Dan Moseley and G. Lee Ramsey - interviewed more than 260 laypeople ...

The Art & Craft of Biblical Preaching is one of the most useful preaching volumes to be published in some time. Edited by Haddon Robinson (the Gordon-Conwell prof and Preaching Contributing Editor whose Biblical Preaching is one of the homiletical classics of the 20th century) and Craig Brian...

A variety of books have been published in recent months in connection with the 300th anniversary of Jonathan Edwards' birth. A God-Entranced Vision Of All Things: The Legacy Of Jonathan Edwards (Crossway), edited by John Piper and Justin Taylor, is a wonderful collection of essays...

Impact (Broadman & Holman), edited by Steven Patty, is written by an array of youth ministry specialists who believe that the purpose of youth ministry is "to develop churched and unchurched kids into devoted disciples of Jesus." If you are ready to take your church's youth ministry beyond fun and...

Get Up Off Your Knees: Preaching the U2 Catalog (Cowley Publications) is one of the more unusual preaching books of recent years. A collection of sermons inspired in some way by the lyrics of the musical group U2, it is really a reflection of the relationship between faith and popular culture in...

Some of America's best-known preachers have spoken from the pulpit of Duke Chapel over the past seventy years. Now in Sermons From Duke Chapel (Duke Univ. Press), William H. Willimon - who recently left Duke to become a United Methodist bishop in Birmingham - has assembled a ...

Finally, preachers are always on the lookout for good illustrations. Recently Baker Books has combined three previous titles (produced in conjunction with Leadership Journal) to produce 1001 Quotes, Illustrations & Humorous Stories. Edited by Ed Rowell, it's a nice collection with mostly ...

Sermons That Shaped America: Reformed Preaching from 1630 to 2001 (P&R Publishing) is a collection of excellent sermons drawn from the Reformed tradition in America. You'll find familiar names like Cotton Mather and Jonathan Edwards, along with more...