Book Recommendations for Growing Preachers
Rev. Stephanie Williams O’Brien
I have had opportunities to coach many emerging preachers over the years. In the last year I have designed and now teach the core Biblical preaching course at Bethel Seminary in St. Paul as well as our online program. Here are some of the book recommendations I have for growing preachers. If you are currently a preacher – I hope you’d join me in seeing yourself as one who is always growing! What would YOU add to the list?
The Art and Craft of Biblical Preaching
Haddon Robinson and Craig Brian Larson
Haddon Robinson
Blue Note Preaching in a Post-Soul World
Otis Moss III
Kenton C. Anderson
Andy Stanley
Contemporary African American Preaching
L. Susan Bond
Bettye Collier-Thomas
Kenyatta Gilbert
Paul Scott Wilson
Cleophus James LaRue
Cloud and Townsend
How to Preach and Teach The Old Testament For All It’s Worth
Christopher J. H. Wright
How to Preach a Dangerous Sermon
Frank A. Thomas
Ingenuity: Preaching as an Outsider
Lisa L. Thompson
Introduction to the Practice of African American Preaching
Frank A. Thomas
The Journey and Promise of African American Preaching
Kenyatta R. Gilbert
Al Tizon
Rick Blackwood
Sandra Maria Van Opstal
Preaching: Communicating Faith in an Age of Skepticism
Timothy Keller
Preaching and Teaching from the Old Testament
Walter C. Kaiser, Jr.
Darius Salter
Barbara Brown Taylor
Scott M. Gibson
Preaching to a Post-Everything Culture
Zack Eswine
Preaching to a Shifting Culture
Scott M. Gibson
Pulpito: An Introduction to Hispanic Preaching
Justo Gonzalez and Pablo Jimenez
Jeannine K. Brown
Curtiss Paul DeYoung
Where Have All the Prophets Gone?
Marvin A. McMickle
Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins
Annette Simmons
Rev. Stephanie Williams O’Brien
I have had opportunities to coach many emerging preachers over the years. In the last year I have designed and now teach the core Biblical preaching course at Bethel Seminary in St. Paul as well as our online program. Here are some of the book recommendations I have for growing preachers. If you are currently a preacher – I hope you’d join me in seeing yourself as one who is always growing! What would YOU add to the list?
The Art and Craft of Biblical Preaching
Haddon Robinson and Craig Brian Larson
Haddon Robinson
Blue Note Preaching in a Post-Soul World
Otis Moss III
Kenton C. Anderson
Andy Stanley
Contemporary African American Preaching
L. Susan Bond
Bettye Collier-Thomas
Kenyatta Gilbert
Paul Scott Wilson
Cleophus James LaRue
Cloud and Townsend
How to Preach and Teach The Old Testament For All It’s Worth
Christopher J. H. Wright
How to Preach a Dangerous Sermon
Frank A. Thomas
Ingenuity: Preaching as an Outsider
Lisa L. Thompson
Introduction to the Practice of African American Preaching
Frank A. Thomas
The Journey and Promise of African American Preaching
Kenyatta R. Gilbert
Al Tizon
Rick Blackwood
Sandra Maria Van Opstal
Preaching: Communicating Faith in an Age of Skepticism
Timothy Keller
Preaching and Teaching from the Old Testament
Walter C. Kaiser, Jr.
Darius Salter
Barbara Brown Taylor
Scott M. Gibson
Preaching to a Post-Everything Culture
Zack Eswine
Preaching to a Shifting Culture
Scott M. Gibson
Pulpito: An Introduction to Hispanic Preaching
Justo Gonzalez and Pablo Jimenez
Jeannine K. Brown
Curtiss Paul DeYoung
Where Have All the Prophets Gone?
Marvin A. McMickle
Whoever Tells the Best Story Wins
Annette Simmons
I have learned from “The Art of Preaching Old Testament Narrative” by Stephen Matthewson.
https://www.amazon.com/Art-Preaching-Old-Testament-Narrative/dp/0801022967