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The Preacher’s Notebook: The Collected Quotes, Illustrations, and Prayers of John Stott is unavailable, but you can change that!

Like many pastors, the great British evangelical leader John Stott was always looking for illustrations and quotations to include in his sermons and writings. Beginning in the 1940s and continuing until the early 2000s, when he came across something he thought he could use, he captured it on a note card, labeled it according to topic, and filed it away in his study. When he used it in a sermon or...

He noted that Stott had received a complaint about his 1966 commentary in the Bible Speaks Today series, Men Made New (on Romans 5–8), for writing a “book like a house with no windows.” In other words, it had no illustrations. But Piper counters the complaint. Stott, he insists, “turned the words of Bible sentences into windows onto glorious reality by explaining them in clear, compelling, complete, fresh, silly-free English sentences.”2 Such was his clarity, therefore, that he did not usually require