CTC 108
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| Christ the Center | |
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| Episode | 108 |
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| Guest(s) | John Currie |
| Panel | Jim Cassidy, Nick Batzig |
| The Task of the Preacher | |
[edit] Books
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- John
- Well, we've assigned different stuff over the few years that I've been teaching it. But, without maybe trying to distinguish which ones for which course [and] just tell you what we do, one book that I highly recommend is Dennis Johnson's Him We Proclaim. I think (a little facetiously) that book is the book every Westminster professor whose interested in preaching wishes he had written. It's a good substantive but vert usable volume on what it means to preach Christ from all of Scripture, which is the subtitle of the book. So I think that's a must read for anybody interested in Christ-centered preaching, anyone interested in preaching from a Redemptive-Historical hermeneutic. It's an excellent book. So we recommend certain sections of that. One of the most useful section is an appendix, where he talks about the process of going from text to sermon. And I think that is a little afield of your question, Jim, but one of the responses I can characteristically get from student of that course is how helpful that is, just to have a process. When I sit down with the text on a Monday (or whenever it is that I begin my sermon preparation work), what am I supposed to do? [What are] the nuts and bolts to get from here to a sermon on Sunday? I've talked to ministerial who went to seminary and said, 'I didn't what to do when I got out. There was no model, no sort of pattern, no process. We don't want to be slavish about that; we don't want to be artificial about that. But at the same time, it's good to have basics that you can work with. Johnson provides some of that. The other section I think thats really informative in is the chapter where he surveys some of the different models that exist within the Reformed tradition, things like Jay Adams and Clowney and Tim Keller and those kind of things. He does a little bit (if I can recall) on what's good and what can be learned and what works in each of those models. We assign those sections, along with a couple of other chapters, but the whole book is worth the read.
The other book that we assign along side that is Haddon Robinson's Biblical Preaching.
