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Reading for Preaching: The Preacher in Conversation with Storytellers, Biographers, Poets, and Journalists is unavailable, but you can change that!

In Reading for Preaching Cornelius Plantinga claims preachers who read widely will most likely become better preachers. He argues that good reading generates delight, and the preacher who enters the world of delight goes with God. Good reading can also help tune the preacher’s ear for language—his primary tool. General reading can enlarge the preacher’s sympathies for people and situations that...

Before he started conversing with Khayyam, our plain-spoken preacher would say to us, “Wouldn’t you like to make life go the way you want?” Now he says, “Ah Love! Could you and I with fate conspire.…” Once upon a time our preacher would say that the women came to Jesus’ tomb early in the morning. But now he says that the women came to the tomb just as “the dawn was blushing pink behind the hills of Moab.” He’s been reading poetry and the sermons of Peter Marshall and they have taken him out where
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