Expository Preaching (Blessings of the Faith)
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Did you know that the preaching of the Word of God has unique sin-killing, life-giving power—and brings great blessing to those who hear and receive it? In this helpful primer for congregations, Pastor David Strain establishes the basic biblical and theological foundations of preaching, highlights historical examples, and responds to questions, fears, and objections about expositional preaching in a Reformed church.
Written for the church, the Blessings of the Faith series introduces and celebrates Reformed doctrine and practice—each book features a brief and practical overview of its topic with discussion questions and an extensive Q&A section.
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- Highlights some historical examples of preaching in the church
- Attempts to provide answers to questions, fears, and objections people often have about preaching
- Seeks to establish the basic biblical and theological foundations for expositional preaching in a Reformed church
- Introduction: What Do You Say to Steve and Rachel?
- What Is the Bible?
- Why Expositional Preaching?
- Expositional Preaching and the Ministry of the Church
- Getting the Most out of Expositional Preaching
- Questions and Answers on Preaching
There are several good books on how to prepare and deliver sermons, but there are other pressing questions that we must answer. Why do expositional preaching? Why regard preaching the Word as the center of the church’s worship, edification, and evangelism? How can we listen to expositional preaching to benefit the most from it? David Strain responds to these questions (and more) with brief, biblical, and heartwarming answers. This is an excellent book for pastors, seminary students, and the people who hear them preach
—Joel R. Beeke, President, Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary
David Strain has given us his against-the-stream argument for expositional preaching. He’s heard all the gripes and objections to it (and deftly handles them in his own Q&A). His case is evenly balanced yet with an edge that cuts in all the right places. Is it too much to hope that elders and deacons will digest it—as well as all personal-devotion, small-group, online-preaching addicts? How refreshing to read a work that agrees with the orneriness of God in insisting on the supremacy of preaching in the local church.
—Dale Ralph Davis, Minister in Residence, First Presbyterian Church, Columbia, South Carolina
David Strain has given us a thoughtful, engaging, stimulating primer on the importance of hearing God’s Word. As a seasoned pastor, Strain understands how vital it is for church members to hear God’s Word rightly and have it shape how they think and live. In these rapidly changing and unsettling times, I am convinced that the health of the church depends on its taking to heart the principles and convictions Strain so plainly and passionately sets out in this little gem. A must-read for church members and pastors alike
Ian Hamilton, Professor of Systematic and Historical Theology, Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
- Title: Expository Preaching
- Author: David Strain
- Series: Blessings of the Faith
- Publisher: P&R
- Print Publication Date: 2021
- Logos Release Date: 2021
- Pages: 142
- Era: era:contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subject: Expository preaching
- ISBNs: 9781629958507, 9781629958514, 9781629958521, 1629958506, 1629958514, 1629958522
- Resource ID: LLS:XPSTRYPRCHNG
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-08-12T22:13:35Z
Dr. David Strain was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He holds degrees from Duncan Jordanstone College of Art, Trinity College Glasgow/School of Divinity, the Free Church of Scotland College in Edinburgh, and Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson. He was ordained to the gospel ministry in the Free Church of Scotland in September 2003, and has held pastoral charges in London, England, and Columbus, MS. Since May 2013, David has served on the pastoral staff of First Presbyterian Church in Jackson and was installed as Senior Minister in May 2014. He was awarded a Doctor of Ministry degree from Reformed Theological Seminary (Jackson) in 2016.