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The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church, Volume 6: The Modern Age is unavailable, but you can change that!

This sixth volume, The Modern Age, tells the story from the French Revolution to the fall of the Berlin Wall (1789–1989). During this time preaching continued to support its historic faith while the church undertook to resist secularization, come to grips with biblical criticism, and initiate bold overseas missions. Opening with the revived Catholic Order of Preachers, Abraham Kuyper, and...

Scriptures that a young, well-educated preacher hardly knew how to begin to bring the Word of God to his congregation. For the vast majority of seminary graduates in my generation, a three-year seminary education only introduced us to the problems involved in interpreting the Bible. The Bible was best left to the experts, and experts we were not. For the average man or woman in the pew, the problem was much more acute. The Great American School produced no expository preaching of note. If there was
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