Between Two Worlds

“Preaching is indispensable to Christianity.” World-renowned preacher John Stott opens this book with those five bold words. He maintains, further, that “nothing is better calculated to restore health and vitality to the church than a recovery of true, biblical, contemporary preaching.” Stott was aiming to foster such a recovery when he wrote Between Two Worlds, which has become a modern evangelical classic.

The genius of this book is the way it synthesizes and distills Stott’s wealth of wisdom on preaching, focusing not so much on technical matters but more on theological foundations and on necessary personal characteristics of the preacher—sincerity, earnestness, courage, and humility. Preachers old and new will continue to find much to chew on in these pages.

• Preaching and Preachers
• The Supremacy of God in Preaching
• Preaching: Communicating Faith in an Age of Skepticism
• Biblical Preaching: The Development and Delivery of Expository Messages
• Power in the Pulpit: How to Prepare and Deliver Expository Sermons
• Text-Driven Preaching: God's Word at the Heart of Every Sermon
• Preaching: Communicating Faith in an Age of Skepticism
• Why Johnny Can't Preach: The Media Have Shaped the Messengers
• Expository Exultation: Christian Preaching as Worship
• The Big Idea of Biblical Preaching: Connecting the Bible to People