Notes
Notes to Chapter 1
Thomas G. Long, “No News is Bad News”, in Mike Graves, ed., What’s the Matter with Preaching Today? (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2004), 146-147.
C. E. B. Cranfield, The First Epistle of Peter (London: SCM, 1950), 32.
M. A. C. Warren, Crowded Canvas (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1974), 143.
Notes to Chapter 2
Article 20 of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England.
Leland Ryken, “The Bible as Literature and Expository Preaching”, in Leland Ryken and Todd Wilson, eds., Preach the Word: Essays on Expository Preaching in Honor of R. Kent Hughes (Wheaton: Crossway, 2007), 50.
Leland Ryken, “The Bible as Literature and Expository Preaching”, in Ryken and Wilson, Preach the Word, 44.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, One Word of Truth, the 1970 Nobel Speech on Literature (Bodley Head, 1972; Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970), 22.
P. T. Forsyth, Positive Preaching and the Modern Mind (1907; repr. Whitefish, Mont.: Kessinger, 2003), 3.
C. H. Spurgeon, All-Round Ministry (1900; Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1960), 187.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Preaching and Preachers (Hodder & Stoughton, 1971), 24.
Philip Graham Ryken, City on a Hill: Reclaiming the Biblical Pattern for the Church in the 21st Century (Chicago: Moody, 2003), 48-49.
David A. Hubbard, “Some Musings on the Preacher’s Task”, unpublished paper quoted in Michael P. Halcomb, “The Use of Metaphor in Preaching” (D. Min. thesis presented to Bethel Theological Seminary, 1982), 119.
. Jean Cadier, The Man God Mastered: A Brief Biography of John Calvin, trans. O. R. Johnston (Inter-Varsity Fellowship, 1960), 173-175.
. John Bright, The Authority of the Old Testament (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1975), 168-169.
Notes to Chapter 3
Adapted from Bauer, Arndt and Gingrich, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature. The same verb is used in Proverbs 3:6 and 11:5.
Charles Silvester Horne, The Romance of Preaching, the 1914 Yale Lectures (New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1914), 135, 144-145.
S. E. Dwight, The Works of President Edwards (New York: Carvill, 1830), 1:606.
Arthur Michael Ramsey and Leon-Joseph Suenens, The Future of the Christian Church (London: S.C.M., 1971), 13, 14. See also C. H. Spurgeon’s tract, “The Bible and the Newspaper”, Lectures to My Students, Third Series (London: Passmore and Alabaster, 1894; repr., Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1980), 54.
Ian Pitt-Watson, A Kind of Folly: Towards a Practical Theology of Preaching, the 1972-75 Warrack Lectures (Edinburgh: St Andrew Press, 1976), 57.
S. C. Neill, On the Ministry (London: S.C.M., 1952), 74.
For more about these subjects, see John Stott, Major Issues for a New Century, vol. 1: Human Rights and Human Wrongs; vol. 2: Our Social and Sexual Revolution (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1999).
Notes to Chapter 4
Spurgeon, All-Round Ministry, 236.
Phillips Brooks, The Joy of Preaching (1877, with the title Lectures on Preaching; repr., Grand Rapids, Kregel, 1989), 159-160.
Two companion books by D. A. Carson help readers by underscoring important lessons from the various chapters, For the Love of God: A Daily Companion for Discovering the Riches of God’s Word, 2 vols. (Wheaton: Crossway, 2006).
The Willowbank Report on Gospel and Culture (Lausanne Occasional Paper No. 2, 1978), 11. Available at www.lausanne.org/all-documents/lop-2.html.
These words are reputed to have been spoken by John Robinson, the pastor of the church in Holland from which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed to America in the Mayflower in 1620.
Two books that can help you choose commentaries are Tremper Longman, III, Old Testament Commentary Survey, 4th ed., and D. A. Carson, New Testament Commentary Survey, 6th ed. Both books were published in Grand Rapids by Baker in 2007.
Tokunboh Adeyemo, ed., Africa Bible Commentary (Nairobi: WordAlive/Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2006).
Michael Hennell, John Venn and the Clapham Sect (Lutterworth, 1958), 84. In 1955, having recognized our generation’s need for “mutual religious intercourse . . . and the investigation of spiritual truth”, an invitation went out from All Souls Church, Langham Place, to twenty-two younger evangelical ministers to re-found this society. By 1966 it had a membership of over 1,000 in seventeen groups.
Warren Wiersbe, Walking with the Giants: A Minister’s Guide to Good Reading and Great Preaching (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1976), 56.
. Wiersbe, Walking with the Giants, 133.
. Lloyd-Jones, Preaching, 173.
Notes to Chapter 5
James S. Stewart, Heralds of God (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1946), 111.
James Stalker, The Preacher and His Models, the 1891 Yale Lectures on Preaching (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1891), 166.
Mary Bosanquet, The Life and Death of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1968), 110.
E. D. Hirsch, Validity in Interpretation (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1967), 1.
Pitt-Watson, A Kind of Folly, 65.
Hugh Evan Hopkins, Charles Simeon of Cambridge (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1977), 59.
Charles Smyth, The Art of Preaching: A Practical Survey of Preaching in the Church of England (London: SPCK, 1940), 177.
W. Robertson Nicoll, Princes of the Church (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1921), 245, 249.
Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, First Series, 88-89.
. W. H. Lewis, ed., Letters of C. S. Lewis (Geoffrey Bles, 1966), 271.
. J. C. Ryle, Light from Old Times (London: Thynne & Jarvis, 1924), 408.
. Henry Ward Beecher, Lectures on Preaching: Personal Elements in Preaching, the 1872 Yale Lectures (London: Nelson, 1872), 127, 134.
. Theodore Parker Ferris, Go Tell the People, the 1950 George Craig Stewart Lectures on Preaching (New York: Scribner, 1951), 93.
. Richard Bernard, The Faithfull Shepheard (London, 1607), 11, 72. See also William Perkins’s The Art of Prophecying (London, 1631), in which chapter 7 is entitled “Of the wayes how to use and apply doctrines”. He lists different groups of people and how to relate our message to them.
. Edwin Charles Dargan, A History of Preaching (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1912), 2:314-315.
. This sermon was preached in All Souls Church, Langham Place, by Roger Simpson.
. Smyth, The Art of Preaching, 178.
. Dwight, The Works of President Edwards, 1:605.
. E. Clowes Chorley, Men and Movements in the American Episcopal Church, the Hale Lectures (New York: Scribner, 1946), 34-35.
. From a private communication dated 30 September 1978.
. Richard Baxter, The Reformed Pastor (1656; London: Epworth, 1950), 158.
. Halford Edward Luccock, In the Minister’s Workshop (New York: Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1944), 12.
Notes to Chapter 6
Baxter, Reformed Pastor, 162.
Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, First Series, 4.
W. Haslam, From Death into Life (London: Marshall, Morgan & Scott, 1880), 48-49.
J. H. Bavinck, An Introduction to the Science of Missions (Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed, 1960), 93.
James Black, The Mystery of Preaching (1924; rev. ed., London: Marshall, Morgan & Scott, 1977).
Colin Morris, The Word and the Words (London: Epworth, 1975), 34, 35.
One of these friends was Tony Waterson, who became Professor of Virology at the Royal Post-graduate Medical School, Hammersmith. He is modest enough to say that, on reflection, his comments were “probably brash, ill-considered and immature”, and that they concerned technicalities of structure and delivery rather than the really important questions of whether God was anointing the message, Jesus was being exalted, and people were being blessed. But I think he underestimates the help and challenge he gave me.
James W. Alexander, Thoughts on Preaching (1864; Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1975), 20.
John A. Broadus, On the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons (1870; rev. ed., New York: Harper, 1944), 218.
. David Smith on 2 John 12 in the Expositor’s Greek Testament.
. John C. Pollock, George Whitefield and the Great Awakening (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1973), 263.
. Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, Second Series, 46.
. Alexander, Thoughts on Preaching, 25.
. G. C. Morgan, Preaching (1937; repr., Grand Rapids: Baker, 1974), 14, 15.
. Morgan, Preaching, 36.
. Lloyd-Jones, Preaching, 97.
. T. R. Glover, The Jesus of History (1917; Hodder & Stoughton, 1965), 44.
. Elton Trueblood, The Humour of Christ (Harper & Row, 1964; Darton, Longman & Todd, 1965), 49-53.
. Josephine Kamm, Men Who Served Africa (London: Harrap, 1957), 154.
. Christopher Morley, quoted in Luccock, In the Minister’s Workshop, 192.
. E. M. Bounds, Power Through Prayer (London: Marshall, Morgan & Scott, 1912), 11. See also Al Martin, What’s Wrong with Preaching Today? (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 1968).
. Black, The Mystery of Preaching, 37.
Notes to Chapter 7
George Buttrick, Jesus Came Preaching: Christian Preaching in the New Age, the 1931 Yale Lectures (New York: Scribner, 1931), 133.
Dargan, A History of Preaching, 1:90.
Luther, Works, 21:201-202.
Elizabeth Whitley, Plain Mr Knox (Scottish Reformation Society, 1960), 199, 235.
Coretta Scott King, My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1969), 18.
Nicoll, Princes, 320.
Chad Walsh, Campus Gods on Trial (New York: Macmillan, 1962), 95.
John C. Pollock, Amazing Grace (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1981), 155.
Forsyth, Positive Preaching, 5.
. Forsyth, Positive Preaching, 19.
. Beecher, Popular Lectures, 249, referring to the incident recorded in Daniel 4:28-37.
. Baxter, Reformed Pastor, 95.
. Ralph G. Turnbull, A Minister’s Obstacles (1946; Grand Rapids: Baker, 1972), 41.
. Donald G. Miller, Fire in Thy Mouth (Nashville: Abingdon, 1954), 18.
. J. H. Jowett, The Preacher: His Life and Work, the 1912 Yale Lectures (New York: G. H. Doran, 1912), 24.
Notes to Appendix 1
Didache 11:1-2; 12:1-5 (www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/didache-roberts.html).
Didache, 3:8; 4:1.
Justin Martyr, “Weekly Worship of the Christians,” in First Apology, lxvii (www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/justinmartyr-firstapology.html).
Tertullian, Apology, xxxix (www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/tertullian01.html).
Philip Schaff, ed., The Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers (1892; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1975), 9:22 (www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf109.iii.xiv.html).
Clyde E. Fant and William M. Pinson, eds., Twenty Centuries of Great Preaching (Waco: Word, 1971), 1:108-109.
Fant and Pinson, Twenty Centuries, 1:174-175.
Smyth, The Art of Preaching, 15-16.
“De Blasphemia contra Fratres”, in Fant and Pinson, Twenty Centuries, 1:234.
. Erasmus, “On Preaching”, in Roland H. Bainton, Erasmus of Christendom (London: Collins, 1970), 324.
. Martin Luther, “A Prelude on the Babylonian Captivity of the Church”, in Ernest Gordon Rupp, Luther’s Progress to the Diet of Worms 1521 (London: SCM, 1951), 85-86.
. Luther, “Of the Liberty of a Christian Man”, in Rupp, Luther’s Progress, 87.
. Luther, “Treatise on Good Works”, in Helmut T. Lehmann, Luther’s Works (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1965), 44:58.
. “Of Preachers and Preaching”, in Luther’s Table-Talk, 1566 (Captain Henry Bell, 1886), cccc.
. Rupp, Luther’s Progress, 96-99.
. Baxter, The Reformed Pastor, 75.
. Baxter, Reformed Pastor, 81.
. Cotton Mather, Student and Preacher, or Directions for a Candidate of the Ministry (1726; London: Hindmarsh, 1789), iii-v.
. John Wesley, Sermons on Several Occasions (1746-60; London: Epworth, 1944), vi.
. Pollock, George Whitefield, 248.
. William Carus, ed., Memoirs of the Rev. Charles Simeon (London: Hatchard, 1847), 41.
. Charles Simeon, Let Wisdom Judge: University Addresses and Sermon Outlines, ed. Arthur Pollard (London: Inter-Varsity Fellowship, 1959), 188-189.
. Herman Melville, Moby Dick (1851; Penguin, 1972), 128-242.
. Hughes Oliphant Old, The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1998-2007), 6:826-829.
. Old, Reading and Preaching, 6:835.
. James S. Stewart, “Heralds of God”, the 1946 Warrack Lectures, as reported in Old, Reading and Preaching, 6:908.
. Old, Reading and Preaching, 6:904.
. Walter M. Abbott, ed., The Documents of Vatican II (London: Geoffrey Chapman, 1967), para. 23.
. Lloyd-Jones, Preaching and Preachers, 9, 297.