Bringing Scripture to Life

Today heaven's gain, is Christianity's loss, as Haddon Robinson went home to be with Jesus at age 86. Haddon Robinson is one of my heroes of the faith who truly led the way in the area of expositional preaching, with his book, Biblical Preaching: The development and delivery of expository messages.   This book is a must read for anyone who desires to truly teach the Word of God in a way that not only explains the text at hand, but drives it home into the hearts of his audience. You can read more about Haddon Robinson in the following tribute from Christianity Today .

Originally published in 1980, Biblical Preaching: The Development and Delivery of ExpositoryMessages , has been a treasured companion for seminaries and pastors throughout the world, in helping us better understand and practice the art of expository preaching. In this classic guide, Robinson takes his readers through a step-by-step process of developing and delivering an expository sermon, and gives ample evidence of why this process is important to the preacher and his audience. In defining the expositional sermon, Robinson says, “Expository preaching is the communication of a biblical concept, derived from and transmitted through a historical, grammatical, and literary study of a passage in its context, which the Holy Spirit first applies to the personality and experience of the preacher, then through the preacher, applies to the hearers” (p.21). I believe this book is an important read for every teaching pastor, seminary student, and would be Bible teachers, as...