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Pastors, preachers and sermon listeners, what are the most helpful books you've read on the topic of preaching?
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Between Two Worlds: The Challenge of Preaching Today
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Preaching and Preachers
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4.48 avg rating — 3,295 ratings
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Biblical Preaching: The Development and Delivery of Expository Messages
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4.14 avg rating — 3,150 ratings
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The Supremacy of God in Preaching
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John Piper (Goodreads Author)
4.38 avg rating — 2,658 ratings
score: 577,
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Christ-Centered Preaching: Redeeming the Expository Sermon
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4.29 avg rating — 3,369 ratings
score: 478,
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Preaching: Communicating Faith in an Age of Skepticism
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4.48 avg rating — 3,790 ratings
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Saving Eutychus: How to Preach God's Word and Keep People Awake
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4.12 avg rating — 724 ratings
score: 381,
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4 people voted
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Preaching at the Crossroads: How the Worldand Our PreachingIs Changing
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David J. Lose (Editor)
4.07 avg rating — 110 ratings
score: 300,
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The Priority of Preaching
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4.19 avg rating — 171 ratings
score: 281,
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Preaching Christ in All of Scripture
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4.03 avg rating — 250 ratings
score: 277,
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Preaching the Whole Bible as Christian Scripture: The Application of Biblical Theology to Expository Preaching
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4.22 avg rating — 392 ratings
score: 273,
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The Heart Is the Target: Preaching Practical Application from Every Text
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4.55 avg rating — 199 ratings
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Gospel-Centred Preaching
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4.48 avg rating — 25 ratings
score: 264,
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Reading for Preaching: The Preacher in Conversation with Storytellers, Biographers, Poets and Journalists
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3.81 avg rating — 441 ratings
score: 247,
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Preaching: The Art of Narrative Exposition
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3.78 avg rating — 141 ratings
score: 198,
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Preaching
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4.13 avg rating — 428 ratings
score: 192,
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Homiletic: Moves and Structures
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3.89 avg rating — 79 ratings
score: 191,
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How to Speak At Special Events
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score: 188,
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Homiletics
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Preaching the Cross
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Mark Dever (Contributor)
4.11 avg rating — 187 ratings
score: 186,
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2 people voted
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Feed My Sheep: A Passionate Plea for Preaching
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Don Kistler (Editor)
4.13 avg rating — 379 ratings
score: 186,
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He Is Not Silent: Preaching in a Postmodern World
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4.20 avg rating — 604 ratings
score: 186,
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Preaching for God's Glory (Redesign)
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4.35 avg rating — 410 ratings
score: 186,
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Light and Heat: The Puritan View of the Pulpit
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4.25 avg rating — 12 ratings
score: 186,
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The Modern Preacher and the Ancient Text: Interpreting and Preaching Biblical Literature (Relativism; 2)
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4.13 avg rating — 144 ratings
score: 181,
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Preach: Theology Meets Practice
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4.16 avg rating — 497 ratings
score: 176,
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Preaching Without Notes
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3.76 avg rating — 194 ratings
score: 169,
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Preaching to a Post-Everything World: Crafting Biblical Sermons That Connect with Our Culture
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Zack Eswine (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 265 ratings
score: 167,
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Expositional Preaching: How We Speak God's Word Today
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4.36 avg rating — 2,160 ratings
score: 164,
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Preaching, man and method: An intensive study of the preparation and delivery of sermons
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
score: 100,
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Invitation to Biblical Preaching: Proclaiming Truth with Clarity and Relevance (Invitation to Theological Studies Series, 2)
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4.16 avg rating — 196 ratings
score: 100,
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Giving Blood: A Fresh Paradigm for Preaching
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Leonard Sweet (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 129 ratings
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Growing Young: Shifting Church Culture to Reach a New Generation
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4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Preaching That Moves People: How To Get Down the Mountain of Your Messages with Maximum Impact
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Yancey Arrington (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 139 ratings
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The Covenant Names of God
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Richard Sones (Goodreads Author)
4.87 avg rating — 15 ratings
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DENOMINATIONS: FROM GOD OR MAN? VOLUME ONE
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Martin Luther: Preacher of the Cross
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4.26 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Story of Narrative Preaching: Experience and Exposition: A Narrative
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4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Preparing Expository Sermons: A Seven-Step Method for Biblical Preaching
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score: 99,
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12 Essential Skills for Great Preaching
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3.80 avg rating — 288 ratings
score: 99,
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The Art and Craft of Biblical Preaching: A Comprehensive Resource for Today's Communicators
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3.99 avg rating — 147 ratings
score: 98,
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Preparing Evangelistic Sermons: A Seven-Step Method for Preaching Salvation
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3.24 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Quest for Better Preaching: Resources for Renewal in the Pulpit
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4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
score: 98,
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On the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons
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3.95 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Reflections on My Call to Preach
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4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Homiletical Plot: The Sermon as Narrative Art Form
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4.13 avg rating — 691 ratings
score: 97,
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How to Prepare Bible Messages
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3.95 avg rating — 100 ratings
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What's the Matter with Preaching Today?
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score: 96,
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I Believe I'll Testify: The Art of African American Preaching
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4.40 avg rating — 52 ratings
score: 96,
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On Preaching: Personal & Pastoral Insights for the Preparation & Practice of Preaching
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4.32 avg rating — 461 ratings
score: 96,
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The Sermon As Symphony: Preaching the Literary Forms of the New Testament
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3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings
score: 95,
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The Heart of Black Preaching
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3.91 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Why Johnny Can't Preach
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4.10 avg rating — 1,230 ratings
score: 95,
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The Preaching of Jesus: Gospel Proclamation, Then and Now
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4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
score: 94,
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Fundamentals of Preaching: Second Edition
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3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings
score: 94,
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Small Preaching: 25 Little Things You Can Do Now to Make You a Better Preacher
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4.23 avg rating — 321 ratings
score: 94,
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The Cherry Log Sermons
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4.47 avg rating — 116 ratings
score: 93,
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The Web of Preaching: New Options In Homiletic Method
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3.94 avg rating — 16 ratings
score: 93,
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Preaching with Freshness
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Evangelical Eloquence
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4.19 avg rating — 107 ratings
score: 93,
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Principles of Expository Preaching
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4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
score: 92,
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Him We Proclaim: Preaching Christ from All the Scriptures
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4.22 avg rating — 204 ratings
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Craddock Stories
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4.26 avg rating — 125 ratings
score: 91,
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Worldly Preaching
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The Archer and the Arrow: Preaching the Very Words of God
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3.97 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Preaching Christ from the Old Testament: A Contemporary Hermeneutical Method
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4.18 avg rating — 338 ratings
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The Hardest Sermons You'll Ever Have to Preach: Help from Trusted Preachers for Tragic Times
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4.11 avg rating — 118 ratings
score: 82,
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Preaching With Spiritual Vigour: Including lessons from the the Life and practice of Richard Baxter
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4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Christ-Centered Sermons: Models of Redemptive Preaching
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4.12 avg rating — 52 ratings
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The Word Became Fresh: How to Preach from Old Testament Narrative Texts
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4.47 avg rating — 301 ratings
score: 76,
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Simplicity in Preaching
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4.56 avg rating — 607 ratings
score: 73,
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Charles Spurgeon: Preaching Through Adversity
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John Piper (Goodreads Author)
4.41 avg rating — 154 ratings
score: 72,
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Preaching the Whole Counsel of God: Design and Deliver Gospel-Centered Sermons
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4.30 avg rating — 113 ratings
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Speaking God's Words: A Practical Theology of Preaching
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3.92 avg rating — 105 ratings
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Walking With the Giants: A Minister's Guide to Good Reading and Great Preaching
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4.29 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Preaching as the Word of God: Answering an Old Question with Speech-Act Theory
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4.07 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Preaching in the New Testament (Volume 42) (New Studies in Biblical Theology)
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4.16 avg rating — 210 ratings
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How to Preach and Teach the Old Testament for All Its Worth
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4.20 avg rating — 225 ratings
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Expository Exultation: Christian Preaching as Worship
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John Piper (Goodreads Author)
4.43 avg rating — 610 ratings
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The Passionate Preaching of Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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4.20 avg rating — 543 ratings
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Kindled Fire: How the methods of CH Spurgeon can help your preaching
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Zack Eswine (Goodreads Author)
4.44 avg rating — 18 ratings
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I've removed a few books on general Christian living to keep the list focused on books which specifically address preaching.
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How is Tim Keller's "Preaching" not higher on this list?!
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