Preaching with Power: Dynamic Insights from Twenty Top Communicators [Paperback]

Michael Duduit (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 2006

For twenty years Preaching magazine has observed, encouraged, and reported on the state of Christian proclamation. Among the most important and popular features of the publication are the personal interviews with outstanding preachers and influencers of preaching. Preaching with Power combines the best of the most recent interviews to build a resource that imparts valuable insight from many gifted communicators. Editor Michael Duduit has skillfully combined interviews with such luminaries as Bryan Chapell, T. D. Jakes, Haddon Robinson, Rick Warren, and more. Each tells his own story in his own words, speaking about his passion to preach God's truth. Better than any volume currently available, this collection captures the rich diversity and power of preaching in America.

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Insights and advice from leaders in the field! Preaching with Power brings together powerful personal interviews with dynamic preachers and those who influence preaching today. Discover here how these top communicators prepare and plan for sermons, what role culture plays in shaping their messages, who influenced their ministries, and what they have to say to you. Drawn from the best of the last decade of Preaching magazine, this book provides an insider's look at the life and vocation of leaders such as: Bryan Chapell Jerry Falwell Jack Graham O. S. Hawkins Jim Henry T. D. Jakes David Jeremiah Dan Kimball Erwin Lutzer John MacArthur Brian McLaren John Maxwell Lloyd John Ogilvie Haddon Robinson Adrian Rogers Andy Stanley Jerry Vines Rick Warren James Emery White Ed Young Jr. Michael Duduit is the founding publisher and editor of Preaching magazine. He is the author or editor of several books, including Communicate with Power.

About the Author

Michael Duduit (Ph.D., Florida State University) is the founding publisher and editor of Preaching magazine and PreachingNow, a weekly email newsletter that reaches more than 12,500 pastors nationwide. He is also the author or editor of several books and has served on the administrative staffs at Southern Baptist Seminary and Samford, Palm Beach Atlantic, and Union universities. He resides in Franklin, Tennessee.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Baker Books (July 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0801066301
• ISBN-13: 978-0801066306
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #586,493 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This book is a collection of more than 20 interviews that Preaching Magazine has done over the years. The magazine editor interviews of today's msot brilliant communicators on ghow they prepare and pray over and preach their sermons. They all have different styles and they don't all agree at every point, but they do agree on one thing: Preaching is hard! It takes many hours to put together a quality Sunday morning sermon.

Another thing the ministers have in common is that they not only exegete the text, they exegete the congregation. They ask themselves "How will this text come across to the man who has just lost his job, or to the elderly widow trying to scrape by on social security? How can I apply this to their lives?"

These are some of the things that the 20 ministers have in common, but there also some significant differences. Haddon Robinson, Bryan Chappell, David Jeremiah, Jerry Vines, Jim Henry, and Adrian Rogers are convinced that expository preaching (done properly) is the best way to preach because you are speaking the word of God with authority, the way it is in the text. But Andy Stanley is not a big fan of expository preaching (at least as he understands it), and Rick Warren says that God uses all kinds of methods of preaching to reach all kinds of people, and if God is blessing it, then praise the Lord!

The Bishop TD Jakes was interviewed as well. He is such an eloquent man, and his first person account of how he used to wake up at night at the prompting of the Spirit to flesh the sermon God put into his head was fascinating. He talks about how he uses the great narratives of the Old Testament as metaphors for the struggles that people go through today.

I pray that someday, he will embrace an orthodox understanding of the Trinity.

The only thing I would do differently with this book is that I would interview more small church pastors. Every one one of the preachers in this book is either a megachurch pastor, or is widely known in the Christian world for being erudite and successful. What about the small church guy who doesn't have the luxury of working with a pastoral leadership team in the sermon crafting process? What about the guy who has labored long and hard for 14 years to preach through the books of the Bible in the same small town congregation? What about the guy who shuffles from parish to parish every four years?

This aside, I thought the book was inspiring and helpful! It is definitely a five star book that pastors will want to read.