I have really enjoyed Willimon’s writings on preaching. He focuses on the post liberal style which is fun to preach. Also, I feel that this is a good combination of the style and truth of preaching. You must use various elements of style while allowing the word of God to be intrusive. You are “bringing the word to their lives instead of bringing their lives to the word.” One is more human-centric while the other is rooted more in the word of God. Instead of allowing man to dictate the agenda of preaching, human needs, the word of God is allowed to be overbearing to the person. This is a great book. It is not as good as his first one, a peculiar speech, but was well worth the short read. The book mostly deals with preaching to the unbaptized which ultimately means that there is little difference in preaching to the various groups, the word must still speak and invade the person’s world.
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- Review of “A Peculiar Prophet”
- Review of “Preaching Jesus”
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Matthew is originally from Nova Scotia, Canada. He has a beautiful wife named Charity and a precious baby named Gabrielle. He has graduated from the Brown Trail School of Preaching, Heritage Christian University with his Bachelors of Arts in Biblical Studies, Lipscomb University with his Master’s of Arts in Biblical Studies and his Master’s of Divinity at Freed-Hardeman University. He is presently working towards his Doctorate of Ministry at Harding Graduate School of Religion. His articles have appeared in the World Evangelist, the Highway to Holiness, The West Virginia Christian, The Christian Echo, The Firm Foundation, Church Growth, and the Gospel Advocate. He enjoys hockey, golf, boxing, and chess. In his spare time he enjoys reading numerous genres of books. Also, he is working on climbing all of the 14ers in Colorado. Matthew is the Pulpit Minister for the Castle Rock church of Christ.
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