Preaching

In the seven steps on this site, I give some basic instruction on expository preaching. Here are some resources that you may find helpful as you seek to grow in your ability to move from the biblical text to a sermon.

Books:

Jay E. Adams.  Preaching with Purpose: A Comprehensive Textbook on Biblical Preaching  (1982)

Bryan Chapell. Christ-Centered Preaching: Redeeming the Expository Sermon, Third Edition. (2018)

Edmund P. Clowney. Preaching and Biblical Theology  (2002) (This can be borrowed online here.)

Graeme Goldsworthy. Preaching the Whole Bible as Christian Scripture: The Application of Biblical Theology to Expository Preaching  (2000)

Sidney Greidanus. Modern Preacher and Ancient Text: Interpreting and Preaching Biblical Literature  (1988)

Sidney Greidanus. Preaching Christ from the Old Testament: A Contemporary Hermeneutical Method  (1999)

Dennis E. Johnson. Him We Proclaim: Preaching Christ from All the Scriptures (2007)

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones. Preaching and Preachers (2011)

Thomas G. Long. The Witness of Preaching. Third Edition  (2016) (The first edition can be borrowed online here.)

Haddon W. Robinson. Biblical Preaching: The Development and Delivery of Expository Messages. Third Edition (2014)

Online Lectures, Courses and Articles:

Much of the content of Bryan Chapell’s book, Christ-Centered Preaching is available in lecture form here and here.

Much of the content of Haddon Robinson’s book, Biblical Preaching is available in series of twenty video lectures here.

A series of lectures by John Stott entitled “Biblical Preaching: A Pastor’s Look at Homiletics” is available here.

A summary of Goldsworthy’s book Preaching the Whole Bible as Christian Scripture is available here.

A lecture on preaching Christ through the Old Testament by Sidney Griedanus is available here. (See also his article, “Preaching Christ from the Old Testament.”)

David Prince has four posts that evaluate four approaches to Christ-centered preaching. They are:

Evaluating Bryan Chapell’s Approach to Christ-Centered Preaching

Evaluating Edmund Clowney’s Approach to Christ-Centered Preaching

Evaluating Sidney Greidanus’s Approach to Christ-Centered Preaching

Evaluating Graeme Goldsworthy’s Approach to Christ-Centered Preaching