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Homiletics

*Chapell, Bryan. Christ-Centered Preaching: Redeeming the Expository Sermon. 3rd ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2018. This is simply the best homiletics textbook we’re aware of. Along with treating all the elements that go into producing sermons, the final section of the book sets forth a redemptive approach to preaching Christ-centered messages. 

Clowney, Edmund P. Preaching and Biblical Theology. Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R, 2002.

———. Preaching Christ in All of Scripture. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2003.

Goldsworthy, Graeme. Preaching the Whole Bible as Christian Scripture: The Application of Biblical Theology to Expository Preaching. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2000.

Greidanus, Sidney. The Modern Preacher and the Ancient Text: Interpreting and Preaching Biblical Literature. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1989.

Griffiths, Jonathan I. Preaching in the New Testament: An Exegetical and Biblical-Theological Study. NSBT. Downers Grove, IL: IVP, 2017. Unlike most books on preaching that tend to be heavy on methodology and light on theology, this book provides a biblical-theological overview of the preaching task. Very helpful reflection to remind the pastor just what he is engaged in.

Johnson, Dennis E. Him We Proclaim: Preaching Christ from All the Scriptures. Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R, 2007.

Kaiser, Walter C. Toward an Exegetical Theology: Biblical Exegesis for Preaching and Teaching. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1998.

Lloyd-Jones, D. Martyn. Preaching and Preachers. 40th anniversary ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2012. A classic work providing a wealth of wisdom, insight, and motivation from one of the great preachers of the 20th century. The pastor would do well to revisit this book regularly.

Logan, Samuel T. The Preacher and Preaching: Reviving the Art in the Twentieth Century. Phillipsburg, NJ: P&R, 1986. An excellent collection of essays on all aspects of the preaching task, from the preacher himself, to the content of preaching, and the manner of preaching. The opening chapter by J.I. Packer entitled “Why Preach?” is the single best essay on preaching we’re aware of.

Merida, Tony. The Christ-Centered Expositor: A Field Guide for Word-Driven Disciple Makers. Nashville: B&H Academic, 2016.

Millar, Gary, and Phil Campbell. Saving Eutychus: How to Preach God's Word and Keep People Awake. Kingsford, Australia: Matthias Media, 2013.

Piper, John. The Supremacy of God in Preaching. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2015.

———. Expository Exultation: Christian Preaching as Worship. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2018.

Ryken, Leland, and Todd A. Wilson, eds. Preach the Word: Essays on Expository Preaching in Honor of R. Kent Hughes. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2007.

Stott, John R. W. Between Two Worlds: The Art of Preaching in the Twentieth Century. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1982. Another classic text. Provides perhaps the best treatment of the theology of preaching of any homiletics text.