Paul Scott Wilson
Biography
Paul Scott Wilson has served as Professor of Homiletics at Emmanuel College of the University of Toronto. Wilson wrote Setting Words On Fire (2016) and wrote the forewords to Getting to God (2023) and Lament-Driven Preaching (2024).
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“Anyone interested in how pervasive the vestiges of empire can be and how preaching might shed its sometimes hidden colonialist heritage will benefit richly from reading Sarah Travis. Through becoming aware of its colonizing discourse, the church can model more closely the kind of relations with the world God desires.”
Preaching & Worship
“In this collection of finely-crafted and inspiring sermons, Dean powerfully demonstrates how every biblical text affords preachers the opportunity to speak to the heart of the gospel, of the God whose love is demonstrated for all in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.”
Preaching & Worship
“Preachers, as 'remembrancers of the Lord,' are to do what Jeffrey Arthurs beautifully and evocatively does in these pages. Offering practical guidelines, he recalls the biblical and recent past, not just to bring it to memory, but to reactualize faith now. In so doing, one could say he remembers the present and future as well, and they take the shape of the gospel.”
Preaching & Worship
“David Lose provides a brilliant cultural GPS for preachers who need help navigating the often bewildering claims of a post-Christian world. This essential book maps the subtle contours of the ground and charts clear and helpful paths for preaching.”
Church Leadership & Ministry
“Ahmi Lee’s vision of theodramatic preaching presents a lively and artful middle way between propositional and conversational preaching. By centering on an encounter with God in both the sermon and the world, Lee proposes a homiletic that encourages preachers to offer an essential balm for our wounded times.”
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“Cindy Halvorson’s love of people overflows in this gentle and inviting volume. She teaches preachers not just how to read biblical texts better, but how to read people in those texts. Using context and characterization details, she shows how to make movies with words, so the biblical people come alive. More important and unusual on this topic, she focuses on their faith. She ministers Christ to them in the details of their needs and, in so doing, ministers joy and hope to readers.”
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“Read these sermons if at times you weep for our current world. Read them to be reminded of what great preaching is: filled with rich biblical and contemporary stories, good humor, and smart theological analysis. But most of all, read them because you need good news. Jason Byassee takes psalms of anger and lament and skillfully wrestles from them the joyous gospel of Jesus Christ and what God is doing today.”
Theology
“When people say, ‘Go to hell,’ few know more than it is not a nice placen. What happens after we die? Is hell real? What does it have to do with God? In clear, simple language, Allen and Cornwall faithfully review what the Bible and theologians through the ages have said, opening a surprising range of possibilities for readers to consider. No study is more helpful than this for both preachers and laypeople in seeking answers.”
Slow of Speech and Unclean Lips
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“"Reading the fine essays here is like opening a summerhouse after a long winter: light rushes in, memories are stirred, old things are loved anew, new celebrations are imagined. This book addresses a key question: In preaching, what is the human role and what is God's role? The answers here are marvelous in their range, challenging in their diversity, and rich in their depth. They open windows for fresh winds to blow.”
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Foreword
“Joni Sancken leads preachers through theological terrain with clarity, insight, and wisdom, reviewing some of the most recent scholarly literature on Christology, identifying the resistance some preachers have to preaching the resurrection, and pointing to fresh opportunities that await preachers if they do.”
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“John Holbert is a superb preacher of biblical narratives and a wonderful teacher of how to read the Bible and develop plot, narrative character, and point of view. Stories have a danger of becoming mere entertainment, but when he shakes the narrative tree of the Bible, truths fall to the ground as fruit for the feeding of God's people.”
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“Beauty, long shunned from the pulpit, is given a renewed place of primacy in Michael Pasquarello's hopeful vision for preaching. Understood theologically, beauty is related to the mystery of grace and the glory of the Triune God, uniting all things in Christ. Like this fine book, the subject of beauty awakens a desire for the gospel and quickens a love of God.”
Theology
“In beautiful flowing words, Fleming Rutledge encourages the church to get over its often embarrassed silence on the crucifixion. Her immediate accomplishment is brilliant. She recovers a rich array of biblical images relating to Christ's death and places them within the final stages of a drama in which God is the principal actor and humanity has a vital role. Persistent readers will find their hearts transformed. Preachers will be emboldened to speak more frequently of the cross, contributing to the gospel renewal of the church.”
The Practices of Christian Preaching
Church Leadership & Ministry
“Rather than offering a method for preaching, Alcántara promotes lifelong habits to develop through practice and over time. If every preacher would practice his Five Cs, assisted by the Spirit, the church would be stronger and the world would be a better place.”
Theology
“The old phrase ‘What we do in worship dictates what we believe’ is brought home in brilliant fashion here. Haughton tells the story of how a new creed in one denomination came to impact its theology, but it is also the story of many churches when the classical biblical creeds are no longer recited. Agree with him or not, Haughton makes a strong argument, and it is a great read.”
Preaching & Worship
“James Harris does a marvelous job of describing preaching as a dialogical experences: he encourages preachers to discover the complex in that which is apparently simple, to simplify the complex, and to make it all plain through application.”
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