Notes
NOTES
Chapter 1
1. Clarence Edward Macartney, The Wisest Fool, and Other Men of the Bible (New York: Abingdon, 1949), 5.
2. Clarence Edward Macartney, The Making of a Minister (Great Neck, NY: Channel Press, 1961), 131. Macartney died in 1957 and his friend and former pastoral associate Dr. J. Clyde Henry completed his autobiography.
3. For an excellent discussion of this vital theme, see Spirit, Word, and Story by Calvin Miller (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1989).
4. Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1965), 166.
5. Eugene Peterson, Run with the Horses (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1983), 38.
6. Bill Moyers, A World of Ideas (New York: Doubleday, 1989), 504.
Chapter 2
1. Alan Redpath, The Making of a Man of God (Westwood, NJ: Revell, 1962), 5. I highly recommend this series of sermons on King David.
2. William R. Inge, Outspoken Essays, Second Series (New York: Longmans, Green, n.d.), 185.
3. Moyers, World of Ideas, 13.
Chapter 3
1. Phillips Brooks, The Influence of Jesus (London: H. R. Alklenson, 1879), 191.
2. Ralph G. Turnbull, ed., The Treasury of Alexander Whyte (Westwood, NJ: Revell, 1953), 26.
3. Ibid., 171. This sermon is also found in Whyte’s Bible Characters from the Old and New Testaments (Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1990), 683.
4. F. W. Robertson, Sermons by the Rev. Frederick W. Robertson, Fourth Series (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1898), 160.
5. L. T. Remlap, ed., The Gospel Awakening: Sermons and Addresses of D. L. Moody (Chicago: J. Fairbanks, 1879), 620.
6. Andrew W. Blackwood, Biographical Preaching for Today (Nashville: Abingdon, 1954), 130.
Chapter 4
1. For additional suggestions on biographical preaching, see chapter 19 of my book Preaching and Teaching with Imagination (Wheaton: Victor, 1994).
2. Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit (Pasadena, TX: Pilgrim Publications, 1989), 42:565.
3. Ibid., 28:124.
4. Bliss Perry, ed., The Heart of Emerson’s Journals (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1926), 183.
5. George Matheson, The Representative Men of the Bible: Adam to Job (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1902), 4.
6. Plutarch, The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans, vol. 14 in The Great Books of the Western World (Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952), 541.
Chapter 5
1. Warren W. Wiersbe, Your Next Miracle (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2001).
2. See Charles Haddon Spurgeon, “Confession of Sin—A Sermon with Seven Texts,” in New Park Street Pulpit, 3:50 (Pasadena, TX: Pilgrim Publications, 1981).
3. See Boreham’s five volumes on “Texts That Made Men’s Lives,” reprinted as Life Verses (Grand Rapids: Kregel, 1994).