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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...

In recommending reading for preaching, my interest is not particularly aesthetic. I am as blessed as anyone by listening to a lovely sermon once in a while, especially when it is an expansion of a lovely text such as Psalm 103. But my agenda here lies elsewhere. I am convinced that the preacher whose work is supported by wide exposure to great writing will be significantly improved by it, including in the ways I mentioned in the Preface. Here I will add two more ways. The reading preacher will discover
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