Making a Difference in Preaching: Haddon Robinson on Biblical Preaching

by Haddon W. Robinson

Publisher:

Baker

, 1999

Overview

Making a Difference in Preaching offers a collection of Haddon Robinson’s shorter writings on preaching, providing a helpful understanding of his preaching theory, method, and practice, and illuminating the key differences between good preaching and poor preaching. Here the reader can compare and contrast Robinson’s perspective of the preacher as theologian and evangelist. The section entitled The Preacher and the People consists of chapters urging the preacher to think intentionally about the people to whom he or she preaches. Each chapter contains discussion/reflection questions and a list of books for further reading. The book is well-suited for pastors looking for refreshing insights into their preaching, as well as seminary students or lay speakers.

Contents

Top Highlights

“I try to speak for the people before I speak to them” (Page 31)

“A homiletician, therefore, cannot merely ask, ‘How do I get the message across?’ He must also ask, ‘How do I get the message?’” (Page 69)

“it the tension and point it out. All truth exists in tension—God’s love exists in tension with his holiness” (Page 34)

“Does the preacher subject his thought to the Scriptures, or does he subject the Scriptures to his thought?’” (Page 64)

“We capture the attention of people when we show that our experience overlaps theirs” (Page 31)

Product Details

• Title: Making a Difference in Preaching: Haddon Robinson on Biblical Preaching
• Author: Haddon W. Robinson
• Editor: Scott Gibson
• Publisher: Baker Academic
• Publication Date: 1999
• Pages: 160

About Haddon W. Robinson

Haddon Robinson is the Harold John Ockenga Distinguished Professor of Preaching and President at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He received his ThM from Dallas Theological Seminary, an MA from Southern Methodist University, and a PhD from the University of Illinois. Robinson served as director of the Dallas Youth for Christ (1952–55), associate pastor of the First Baptist Church in Medford, Oregon (1956–58), and an instructor of speech at the University of Illinois (1960–62). He was president of Denver Conservative Baptist Seminary and taught homiletics at Dallas Theological Seminary for 19 years. Robinson has done extensive work in radio and television, serving as one of the hosts for Discover the Word, a daily radio program in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is the author of What Jesus Said About Successful Living.