Books

Preaching the Whole Bible as Christian Scripture, Graeme Goldsworthy
Light and Heat: The Puritan View of the Pulpit, Bruce Bickel
Christ Centered Preaching, Bryan Chapell
The Sermon as Symphony by Mike Graves
The Art of Prophesying by Noel Weeks
Refining Your Style by Dave Stone
Preaching Between Two Worlds by John Stott
The Reason for God by Timothy Keller
The Supremacy of God in Preaching by John Piper
Preaching and Preachers by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Ten Books Every Preacher Should Read
By R. Albert Mohler Jr.

1. Preach the Word: Essays on Expository Preaching: In Honor of R. Kent Hughes, edited by Leland Ryken and Todd Wilson (Crossway)
2. Gospel-Centered Hermeneutics: Foundations and Principles of Evangelical Biblical Interpretation, by Graeme Goldsworthy (InterVarsity Press)
3. Truth War: Fighting for Certainty in an Age of Deception, by John MacArthur (Thomas Nelson)
4. A City upon a Hill: How Sermons Changed the Course of American History, Larry Witham (HarperOne)
5. Pierced for Our Transgressions: Rediscovering the Glory of Penal Substitution, by Steve Jeffery, Michael Ovey, and Andrew Sach (Crossway)
6. Renewing Minds: Serving Church and Society Through Christian Higher Education, by David S. Dockery (Broadman and Holman)
7. After the Baby Boomers: How Twenty- and Thirty-Somethings Are Shaping the Future of American Religion, by Robert Wuthnow (Princeton)
8. God’s Ambassadors: A History of the Christian Clergy in America, by E. Brooks Holifield (Eerdmans)
9. Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament, edited by D. A. Carson and G. K. Beale (Baker)
10. Dictionary of Major Biblical Interpreters, edited by Donald K. McKim (InterVarsity Press)

Jeff Purswell’s recommended chapters

1. “Why Preach?” by J.I. Packer. The Introduction to The Preacher and Preaching (P&R, 1986).
2. “Theological Foundations for Preaching” by John Stott. Chapter 3 in Between Two Worlds (Eerdmans, 1982).
3. “Preaching Christ from the Old Testament” by Ligon Duncan. Chapter 2 in Preaching the Cross (Crossway, 2007).
4. “The Gravity and Gladness of Preaching” by John Piper. Chapter 4 in The Supremacy of God in Preaching (Baker, 1990).
5. “Paul’s Theology of Preaching” by Dennis E. Johnson. Chapter 3 of Him We Proclaim (P&R, 2007).

Mike Bullmore’s recommended chapters

1. “A Redemptive Approach to Preaching” by Bryan Chapell. Chapter 10 in Christ-Centered Preaching (Baker, 2005).
2. “The Preacher” by Martyn Lloyd-Jones. Chapter 6 in Preaching and Preachers (Zondervan, 1971).
3. “The Goal of Preaching” by John Piper. Chapter 1 in The Supremacy of God in Preaching (Baker, 1990).
4. “The Blind Eye and Deaf Ear” by C.H. Spurgeon. Various chapters in editions of Lectures to my Students.
5. “The Minister’s Fainting Fits” by C.H. Spurgeon. Various chapters in editions of Lectures to my Students.

C.J. Mahaney’s recommended chapters

1. “Expository Preaching: Charles Simeon and Ourselves” by J.I. Packer. Chapter 9 in Preach the Word (Crossway: 2007)
2. “The Whole Man” by R.C. Sproul. Chapter 4 in The Preacher and Preaching (P&R, 1986).
3. “The Pattern of Illustrations” by Bryan Chapell. Chapter 7 in Christ-Centered Preaching (Baker, 2005).
4. “The Preparation of the Preacher” by Martyn Lloyd-Jones. Chapter 9 in Preaching and Preachers (Zondervan, 1971).
5. “Unction” by Tony Sargent. Chapter 3 in The Sacred Anointing: The Preaching of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (Crossway, 1994).

the Resurgence recommended books on Preaching and Teaching the Old Testament

• Greidanus, Sidney. Preaching Christ from the Old Testament
• Clowney, Edmund P. Preaching Christ in All of Scripture
• Chapell, Bryan. Christ-Centered Preaching: Redeeming the Expository Sermon
• Goldsworthy, Graeme. Preaching the Whole Bible As Christian Scripture