Preaching

It should go without saying that preaching, praying and the progress of God’s kingdom through the gospel are inseparably bound up with each other. Jesus taught his people to pray, ‘Your kingdom come, your will be done’ and made it clear that all believers are all involved in the answer to this...

While Calvin’s life certainly did leave ministers a worthy example, we will consider now the second matter of whether his method of preaching was likewise exemplary. It is perfectly possible for a man to be marked by great measures of grace in his life and yet to be woefully lacking in his ability...

O ur friends at Reformation Heritage Books have given us two (2) copies of The Best Method of Preaching by Petrus Van Maastricht (1630-1706). Enter here .

F or this 500th anniversary year of the Protestant Reformation, Hendrickson Publishers is reprinting a wonderful selection of sermons from Martin Luther. So far there are three volumes of sermons for Advent and Christmas Day , the Sunday after Christmas, New Year’s Day, and Epiphany , and Lent and...

W e conclude our series on Puritan preachers (see #1 , #2 , #3 ) with John Preston (1587–1628), whose preaching can be described as preaching great gospel themes. He was more topical and organized by theological categories and questions than the verse-by-verse biblical expositions of John Calvin...

In thinking through the pastoral implications of the Marrow Controversy , you could probably not do better than reading through Sinclair Ferguson’s The Whole Christ. I can not emphasize that enough. It is an outstanding exposition of the cultural, theological, and pastoral issues that faced not...

Continuing in our series on Puritan preachers (parts #1 , #2 ), we come to Richard Sibbes (1577–1635). One source in which he reveals his view of preaching is The Fountain Opened , a collection of his sermons on 1 Timothy 3:16 ( Works, vol. 5 ), where he addresses the office of the preacher...

R ichard Rogers (1551–1618) is best known today for his massive Commentary on the Book of Judges , which is a collection of 103 sermons. In it we see that his preaching was very practical and experiential. For example, in Sermon 74, he describes the Holy Spirit’s inward work of conversion upon the...