Which book would you read?

Notthemama1984

Notthemama1984

Puritan Board Post-Graduate
I have to select a book from this list and prepare a 45 minute lecture on the work. Out of curiosity, which work would you be your top three choices if you were to read and give a lecture?

Jay E. Adams, Preaching with Purpose: A comprehensive textbook on
biblical Preaching (Phillipsburg, NJ: P & R, 1982) 162 pages.
• Bryan Chapell, Christ-Centered Preaching: Redeeming the Expository
Sermon, Second edition (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2005) 328 pages,
excluding appendices.
• Samuel T. Logan Jr. ed.,The Preacher and Preaching: Reviving the Art in the
Twentieth Century ( Phillipsburg, NJ: P & R, 1986) 463 pages.
• Leland Ryken and Todd Wilson, eds. , Preach the Word: Essays on
Expository Preaching in Honor of R. Kent Hughes (Wheaton, IL: Crossway,
2007) 278 pages.
• Sidney Greidanus, The Modern Preacher and the Ancient Text (Grand
Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1988) 341 pages.
• Haddon W. Robinson, Biblical Preaching: Biblical Preaching: The
development and Delivery of Expository (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2001)
230 pages.
• John R. W. Stott, Between Two Worlds: The Art of Preaching in the
Twentieth Century (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1982) 351 pages.
• Dennis E. Johnson, Him We Proclaim: Preaching Christ from All the
Scriptures (Phillipsburg, NJ: P & R, 2007) 431 pages.
• Sidney Greidanus, Preaching Christ from the Old Testament (Grand Rapids,
MI: Eerdmans, 1999) 373 pages.
• Duane Litfin, Paul’s theology of Preaching: The Apostle’s Challenge to the
Art of Persuasion in Ancient Corinth (Downers Grove, IL: IVP Academic,
2015) 350 pages.
• Jason C. Meyer, Preaching: A Biblical Theology (Wheaton, IL: Crossway,
2013) 361 pages.
• Daniel M. Doriani, Getting the Message: A Plan for Interpreting and
Applying the Bible (Phillipsburg, NJ: P & R, 1996) 255 pages.
• Daniel M. Doriani, Putting the Truth to Work: The Theory and Practice of
Biblical Application (Phillipsburg: NJ, 2001) 319 pgs.
• John Piper, Expository Exultation: Christian Preaching As Worship
(Wheaton, IL. Crossway, 2018) 309.
• T.H.L. Parker, Calvin’s Preaching (Edinburgh, T&T Clark, 1992) 149 Pages.
• Chad Van Dixhoorn, God’s Ambassadors:The Westminster Assembly and
the Reformation of the English Pulpit, 1643-1653 (Grand Rapids, MI, 2017)
180 Pages.
• Hughes Oliphint Old, The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the
Worships of the Christian Church. Vols 1, 4, or 5
 
There are lots of good books to choose from here (a little surprised that Lloyd-Jones didn't make the list). I'd just comment that there are several different kinds of books in this list. There are collections of essays (Logan, Ryken), which would be a little harder to give a lesson from because of the diversity of contents, basic textbooks (Chapell, Robinson), more focused studies on aspects of preaching (Adams, Doriani), and historical studies (Old, Parker). You might start by deciding which of these areas of interest you wanted to focus on, which would shorten your list. A lesson on a basic textbook is going to be a bit different from one on a specialized part of history. So a "favorite" book is not necessarily the best choice. Part of your choice may come down to which would be most useful to you in the future: do you see yourself as a pastor training young interns on the basics of preparing a message or as an academic researching more specialized topics? Is this lecture for other ruling elders and congregants, or is it for a seminary class?
 
Jay Adams is overly basic, and you may not find him worth your time.

Greidanus and Dixhoorn would be my choices.

Sad to see Martyn Lloyd Jones, J.W. Alexander, and Dabney didn't make the list.
 
I know these were not on the list (not sure if you must stick to the list), but some books that I have found helpful regarding preaching are:

- An Earnest Ministry by John Angell James
- Preaching & Preachers by Martyn Lloyd-Jones (you can also find the lectures from which the book is based on sermonaudio)
- The Imperative of Preaching by John Carrick (still working on finishing)
- Evangelical Eloquence by R.L. Dabney
- Princeton & Preaching by James Garreston
- Simplicity in Preaching by J.C. Ryle
- Preaching in the Holy Spirit by Al Martin
- The Relevance of Preaching by Pierre Marcel
 
my vote would be Johnson's Him We Proclaim. There are some good ones on that list that have multiple contributors, which I feel would make it hard to give a cohesive lecture on. Johnson has a solid theme to follow. Although it is on the longer side.
 
Notthemama1984 said:
• John R. W. Stott, Between Two Worlds: The Art of Preaching in the
Twentieth Century (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1982) 351 pages.

• Sidney Greidanus, Preaching Christ from the Old Testament (Grand Rapids,
MI: Eerdmans, 1999) 373 pages.
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These two would give you plenty of material to talk about.
 
There is one that is not on your list but I think its fantastic

Reformed Preaching: Proclaiming God's Word from the Heart of the Preacher to the Heart of His People By Joel Beeke and at Amazon it's like 11.50 Hardcover.............​

 
joebonni63 said:
There is one that is not on your list but I think its fantastic

Reformed Preaching: Proclaiming God's Word from the Heart of the Preacher to the Heart of His People By Joel Beeke and at Amazon it's like 11.50 Hardcover.............​

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Agreed but that is the textbook for the evening class where Beeke is the professor. So we can’t double up.
 
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