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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...

Stott’s was a clarity that was hard won. As any teacher knows, clear communication requires deep levels of comprehension. This takes time and thought. It demands careful attention to alternative interpretations, controversies, and complexities. Stott was exemplary in his engagement with these, as even his theological critics would concede. Which is where this anthology comes in; it provides genuine insight into the workings of his mind and the discipline of his scholarship.