Samuel T. Logan

This is an important book that not only speaks to the current slander culture we live in, but also what it means for Christians to live up to their name in speaking like Christ. Accessible, theological, practical, and winsome, Sam Logan dives deep into what constitutes a lie, gossip, and other "harmless" sins that Christians justify wrongly as a lesser form of evil. Your conscience should be affected by this book in all the right ways if you are reading it in a correct manner. If your first show more instinct is to apply Logan's thoughts to "someone" else, then this might not be the book for you.

The book does slow down in pace in the final chapters of the book, where Logan models an approach to winsome conversation in a variety of current "hot button" issues of the day. The model Logan uses is intriguing and worth exploring in one's own life and heart; however, the skeptic inside of me wonders if such neat and tidy conversations could really happen in the current climate of rhetoric and conversation we have today. show less

If It Isn't missional, It's Not Church and Certainly Not Reformational Church.
Christians are not on a mission for God; his Christian church is on his mission, the mission of bringing the grace of Jesus Christ to sinners; the mission of bringing the whole world into obedience to Jesus Christ; and the mission of covering the earth with the knowledge of the glory of God in Jesus Christ. Being on God's mission means following Jesus into the darkest places of the world to bring the good news of show more the total redeeming work of Jesus Christ.
Leading reformed thinkers including Tim Keller, Thomas Schirrmacher, P. J. Buys, Diane Langberg, John Leonard, Basyle Tchividjian, John Freeman, and many others, demonstrate why and how the Christian church must be on God's mission of bringing grace, holiness, compassion, and justice to a world of sin and suffering. show less

TOC:
Introduction: Why Preach?

PART ONE-THE MAN
Joel Nederhood
1. The Minister's Call
Erroll Hulse
2. The Preacher and Piety
James Montgomery Boice
3. The Preacher and Scholarship
R. C. Sproul
4. The Whole Man

PART TWO-THE MESSAGE
Samuel T. Logan, Jr.
5. The Phenomenology of Preaching

I. MESSAGE CONTENT
Edmund P. Clowney
6. Preaching Christ From All the Scriptures
Sinclair B. Ferguson
7. Exegesis
Hendrik Krabbendam
8. Hermeneutics and Preaching
Donald Macleod
9. Preaching and Systematic Theology

II. MESSAGE show more FORM
Glen C. Knecht
10. Sermon Structure and Flow
Lester De Koster
11. The Preacher as Rhetorician
John F. Bettler
12. Application
Jay E. Adams
13. Sense Appeal and Storytelling

PART THREE-THE MANNER
Geoffrey Thomas
14. Powerful Preaching
J. Peter Vosteen
15. Pastoral Preaching
David A. Dombek
16. Reading the Word of God Aloud
Gwyn Walters
17. The Body in the Pulpit show less