Issue 11 Preaching and PrayerBlog | Books for Life
Books for Life
Author: Andy PeckPost Date: 19.06.17
The surgeon approaches you for your pre-op consultation. She explains that this procedure should be fine as she has seen it before in a YouTube clip. She has chatted it through with friends on Snapchat and they think it will go OK too. She has not consulted a textbook or a journal since her college days, so things may have moved on a bit since the 1970s for this procedure, but she is happy to wing it anyway. Hmmm. Call me old-school, but I would not be a confident patient after these revelations. We expect professionals to take their work seriously, to invest time in serious study in order to do the best job they possibly can. So for those of us committed to preaching, we should also invest all we can to make sure we fulfil this responsibility with excellence. To that end, over the next few months I will be highlighting books both new and old that will help you take your preaching to the next level.
I believe in preaching John Stott, (Hodder & Stoughton)
John Stott was the master of taking a passage and cracking it open to help his congregation to see the beauty of God’s grace in it and to feel the force of the challenge to live in the light of it. Stott’s little book I believe in preaching helps a new generation to learn from one of the greatest preachers in living memory. Stott lets us into what motivated him, but also shows us how to absorb the principles that guided his ministry over the decades. I found the motivational and theological aspects of the book as useful as the practical toolkit he provides for preachers. His chapter on courage and humility alone is worth the price of the book.
Preachers and preaching Dr Martin Lloyd Jones, (Hodder & Stoughton)
