Top 5 preachers/podcasts

[Barnpreacher]

Let's say you could only listen to 5 preachers/podcasts for the rest of your life on your iPod. Which ones would they be? Let's exclude your own preacher, local preachers no one else would know, and anyone whose ministry was before the 20th century.

And these don't have to be your favorite (as in you line up with everything they believe), but which preachers/podcasts could you not do without? I know questions like this have been discussed before, but it seems like it's been a while and there have been a lot of new faces join the PB in the last year or so.

Mine would be:

1. John Piper
2. Tim Keller
3. Ravi Zacharias
4. Joel Beeke
5. R.C. Sproul and White Horse Inn (tie)

Honorable mention: Joseph Pipa, Alan Cairns, Alistair Begg, Al Mohler, Richard Bacon.

 

[raekwon]

(sorry, didn't notice the "let's exclude your own preacher" bit)

John Piper
Mark Driscoll
Mark Dever
Alistair Begg
Ligon Duncan

 

[Robbie Schmidtberger]

1. Alistair Begg
2. Tim Keller
3. Iain Duguid
4. John Piper
5. Sinclair Ferguson

 

[SolaGratia]

Here are my top three:

1. Cornelius Pronk
2. Joel Beeke
3. D Martyn Lloyd-Jones

The rest are from my congregation

 

[Backwoods Presbyterian]

1. Dennis Prutow
2. D. Martin Lloyd-Jones
3. Alistair Begg
4. James Boice
5. Ian Paisley

 

[mvdm]

1. David Wells

2. Joel Beeke

3. Ravi Zacharias

4. Paul Washer

5. R.C. Sproul

 

[Ivan]

The choices are most difficult, but here goes:

1. John Piper
2. Al Mohler
3. Mark Dever
4. Alistair Begg
5. Ligon Duncan

D. Martin Lloyd-Jones, John MacArthur and Joel Beeke as honorable mentions because, for whatever reason, I prefer to read them rather than listen to them.

 

[caoclan]

1) RC Sproul
2) Ligon Duncan/Derek Thomas (1st Pres Jackson, MS)
3) Mark Dever
4) John MacArthur (except when he is preaching on eschatology)
5) Gene Cook, Jr (of The Narrow Mind- his sermons are on Unchained Sermons Podcast, but he hasn't updated his new sermons in a while. He had a great sermon entitled I am Mephibosheth)

 

[ColdSilverMoon]

1. Tim Keller
2. John MacArthur
3. Ravi Zacharias
4. R.C. Sproul
5. Harry Reeder - pastor of Briarwood Presbyterian, my former church

 

[JonathanHunt]

1. Peter Masters
2. Lloyd-Jones
3. Jeff Lyle (transformingtruth.com)
4. Joel Beeke
5. Paul Washer

 

[DeoOpt]

Cornelius Pronk
Joel Beeke
Alistair Begg
Paul Washer
Leonard Ravenhill

 

[InevitablyReformed]

Mark Dever
RC Sproul
John Piper
John Frame
Paul Washer (I really like this guy)

 

[christianyouth]

I want to listen to Tim Keller now, never heard him. Here are my top 5:

1)Paul Washer
2)Ligonier Pod cast
3)White Horse Inn Pod cast
4)Bethinking.org podcast(apologetics)
5)Al Mohler show

 

[Barnpreacher]

I want to listen to Tim Keller now, never heard him. Here are my top 5:

1)Paul Washer
2)Ligonier Pod cast
3)White Horse Inn Pod cast
4)Bethinking.org podcast(apologetics)
5)Al Mohler show

You can find a handful of Keller's sermons available for download here: Reformissionary: Tim Keller Resources

Unfortunately if you go to his church site it is a subscription payment for MP3 downloads. I guess Piper has a lot of us spoiled on that one because it irks me when churches make you pay to download messages.

 

[Barnpreacher]

Unfortunately if you go to his church site it is a subscription payment for MP3 downloads. I guess Piper has a lot of us spoiled on that one because it irks me when churches make you pay to download messages.

Mason,

Why don't you work on this one for us hard working, middle class Keller fans that can't afford to pay for downloads??

 

[Virginia Marine]

Here's what's on my iPod every day...
1) Renewing Your Mind - RC Sproule
2) The Dividing Line - Dr. James White
3) Ravi Zacharias
4) The White Horse Inn
I also enjoy Alistair Begg & Sinclair Ferguson (the Scottish Brogue somehow makes even a marginal sermon more entertaining...)

 

[Ivan]

I also enjoy Alistair Begg & Sinclair Ferguson (the Scottish Brogue somehow makes even a marginal sermon more entertaining...)

Aye! Don't it though!

Makes Craig Ferguson dangerous! He's probably a little too over the top for me, but I still watch him from time to time.

[I made my confession, now what is my pentience?]

 

[Marrow Man]

Wow, lots of good preachers in those lists above!

Here are my somewhat hasty top 5:

1) John Piper
2) R.C. Sproul
3) White Horse Inn podcast
4) Tim Keller
5) Sinclair Ferguson (gotta include a fellow ARP!)

BTW, as an honorable mention, I would commend to all of you the preaching of Mark Ross, another ARP. He was an associate pastor at First ARP Columbia (Ferguson's current church) for many years. He now is a seminary prof and does not often preach, but I have heard him on several occasions and he is quite powerful and passionate.

 

[Scott1]

1) Jesus Christ

....

2) RC Sproul
3) John MacArthur
4) John Piper
5) Billy Graham

 

[jonmo]

Why don't you work on this one for us hard working, middle class Keller fans that can't afford to pay for downloads??

From my experience, Redeemer take the copyright thing pretty seriously.

My top five in no particular order: Driscoll, Keller, Piper, Sproul, Dever but there are several others mentioned above by others that could easily be in there as well (Begg, Ferguson, etc).

 

[christianyouth]

I want to listen to Tim Keller now, never heard him. Here are my top 5:

1)Paul Washer
2)Ligonier Pod cast
3)White Horse Inn Pod cast
4)Bethinking.org podcast(apologetics)
5)Al Mohler show

You can find a handful of Keller's sermons available for download here: Reformissionary: Tim Keller Resources

Unfortunately if you go to his church site it is a subscription payment for MP3 downloads. I guess Piper has a lot of us spoiled on that one because it irks me when churches make you pay to download messages.

Ah, amen for people like Piper. I'm so glad he offers books/sermons for free.

 

[JohnGill]

1) Joel Beeke (P)
2) Henry Krabbendam (P)
3) Greg Bahnsen (P)
4) Gregory Barkman (B)
5) Douglas VanderMeulen (B)

Runners-Up:

1) Albert Mohler (B)
2) Paul Washer
3) Foppe VanderZwaag (P)
4) David Silversides (P)
5) Alan Cairns (P)
6) John Greer (P)

(And yes, I'm still Baptist.)

 

[Romans922]

Humm,

I don't think I can agree with many of the above, I'd say,

Ted Donnelly
Geoff Thomas
Al Martin
Lloyd-Jones
Derek Thomas

 

[govols]

MacArthur
Boice
Duncan
Steven Lawson
Sproul

 

[DMcFadden]

Top 5 (no order): RC Sproul, White Horse Inn, John Piper, Alistair Begg, Ligon Duncan

Runners up (no order): Al Mohler, James White, John MacArthur, Ravi Zacharias, Mark Dever

 

[Gloria]

Here's what's on my iPod every day...
1) Renewing Your Mind - RC Sproule
2) The Dividing Line - Dr. James White
3) Ravi Zacharias
4) The White Horse Inn
I also enjoy Alistair Begg & Sinclair Ferguson (the Scottish Brogue somehow makes even a marginal sermon more entertaining...)

I was waiting for someone to include James White. I love the Dividing Line. I'm so pumped that he's putting them on Youtube now.


I don't have five, but here are three I listen to the most, in no particular order.

1) White Horse Inn
2) The Dividing Line
3) Albert Mohler
4) Gary Demar

I also listen to The Way of the Master radio, sermons from my church (would be in those listed but no home churches allowed...). I was on Ligonier everyday when I first started looking into reformed theology. Paul Washer from Heartcry is also great. The one that impacted me the most is his wife's testimony. It ROCKED me. I highly recommend it for anyone who has time.

 

[21st Century Calvinist]

Only 5? I guess I can trim my list. In no particular order:
Alastair Begg
Iain D Campbell (Back Free Church)
Ravi Zacharias
Tim Keller
R C Sproul

I am also a huge fan of the White Horse Inn.

 

[kvanlaan]

Top 5 (not in order):

A hearty second to Foppe van der Zwaag (he used to be a Christian school teacher and principal and went into the ministry a relatively short time ago). I've heard him preach in person and thought he was great - also a nice guy to talk to.
Joel Beeke
Paul Washer
WHI
Bartel Elshout (his "World's Hatred for the Church" sermon is a favorite of mine:http://www.sermonaudio.com/sermoninfo.asp?SID=111206225931)

 

[Mindaboo]

I don't know if I can think of five, but here is my list:
1. Donald Grey Barnhouse
2. Bill Mencarow
3. RC Sproul

RC Sproul's voice usually puts me to sleep, it is so soothing. I have to be careful not to listen to him in the car!

 

[BaptisticFire2007]

My five favourite preachers (excluding my pastor):

C.J. Mahaney
John Piper
Mark Driscoll
John MacArthur
R.C. Sproul