Recommended Books
As you might expect, we’ll begin here by recommending books on preaching, followed by miscellaneous other works of profit to the pastor.
Preaching
Jay Adams - Preaching With Purpose
Bryan Chapell - Christ Centered Preaching
Dale Ralph Davis - The Word Became Fresh
Daniel Doriani - Putting the Truth to Work
Sidney Greidanus - The Modern Preacher and the Ancient Text
Sidney Greidanus - Preaching Christ from the Old Testament
Graham Goldsworthy - Preaching the Whole Bible as Christian Scripture
Steve Lawson - The Expository Genius of John Calvin
John Piper - The Supremacy of God in Preaching
John MacArthur - Preaching
Stephen F Olford - Anointed Expository Preaching
Hughes Oliphant Old - The Reading and Preaching of The Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church (various volumes)
Stuart Olyott - Preaching: Pure and Simple
Michael Quicke - 360 Degree Preaching
Leyland Ryken and Todd Wilson (eds) - Preach the Word: Essays on Expository Preaching in Honour of R Kent Hughes
Gardiner Spring - The Power of the Pulpit
Charles Spurgeon - Lectures to My Students
John Stott - the Preacher’s Portrait
John Stott - I Believe in Preaching
Warren Wiersbe - Preaching and Teaching with Imagination
Dennis Johnson - Him We Proclaim
Martyn Lloyd Jones - Preaching and Preachers
Other Topics
Tom Ascol (ed) - Dear Timothy
Richard Baxter- The Reformed Pastor
Alistair Begg and Derek Prime - On Being a Pastor
Arthur Bennett (ed) - Valley of Vision - Collection of Puritan Prayers
Charles Bridges - The Christian Ministry
John Calvin - Calvin’s Institutes
Don Carson - The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God
Don Carson - The Gagging of God
Don Carson - The Cross and Christian Ministry
Don Carson (ed) - Worship By the Book
Arnold Dallimore - George Whitefield (2 volumes)
Mark Dever - Nine Marks of A Healthy Church
Mark Dever - The Deliberate Church
Mark Dever - Polity
Jonathan Edwards - Religious Affections
Wayne Grudem - Systematic Theology
Dave Harvey - When Sinners Say I Do
Steve Jeffery, Mike Ovey, Andrew Sach - Pierced for our Transgressions
R Kent & Barbara Hughes - Liberating Ministry from the Success Syndrome
Tim Keller - Ministries of Mercy
Andreas Kostenberger - God, Marriage & Family
Hughes Oliphant Old - Leading in Prayer
John Owen - The Mortification of Sin
John Owen - Communion with God
JI Packer - Evangelism and the Sovreignty of God
JI Packer - Knowing God
John Piper - Brothers, we are Not Professionals
John Piper - Let the Nations be Glad
John Piper - Desiring God
Gary and Betsy Riucci - Love that Lasts
Philip Ryken - City on a Hill
JC Ryle - Holiness
Alexander Strauch - Biblical Eldership
Thomas Watson - Body of Divinity
Edward Welch - When People are Big and God is Small
No Place for Truth - David Wells
Jeff Purswell and Mike Bullmore’s Recommended Chapters on Preaching
I would like to recommend a couple to add to your list.
Alistair Begg and Derek Prime- On Being a Pastor
Editor John Anderson- Reforming Pastoral Ministry
These are both amazing books that hit on a bunch of different roles of the pastor.
Matt, I’ve added Derek and Alistair’s book to the list. I’m not sure how I missed that one off in the first place. The other one I’ll be sure to take a look at.
Blessings…
Another great preaching book that is fairly new is Dennis Johnson’s Him We Proclaim: Preaching Christ from all the Scriptures. It’s a combination of hermeneutics and sermon construction and delivery. A very good resource and should become a standard in the near future. Thanks for your list, there are many on it that I still lack.
Colin,
Thanks for the post. I heard you’re coming to the weekender in March, so I’ll Lord-willing meet you there. I wanted to recommend another preaching book:
Spirit-empowered Preaching by Arturo Azurdia. It is very passionate, biblical, and reformed. I know you’d enjoy it and be edified and equipped by it.
In Christ,
PJ Tibayan
PJ,
Look forward to meeting you there..!
Spirit Empowered Preaching is one I’ve never read, yet I’ve heard it recommended time and again. Perhaps I’ll finally need to get round to taking a look.