Here are the books I’m currently making my way through. Most are required texts for seminary courses I am taking from January-May 2012.
Evangelistic Preaching
Going Public with the Gospel: Reviving Evangelistic ProclamationPreaching Evangelistically: Proclaiming the Saving Message of JesusThe Gospel Is For ChristiansPreparing Evangelistic Sermons: A Seven-Step Method for Preaching SalvationEvangelistic preaching ;: A self study course in creating and presenting messages that call people to Jesus Christ (The Billy Graham Center)
20th Century Theology
A New Handbook of Christian TheologiansListening to the Beliefs of Emerging Churches: Five PerspectivesCarl F. H. Henry (Makers of the Modern Theological Mind)
Devotional Reading
Holiness Day by Day: Transformational Thoughts for Your Spiritual Journey- Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion (2 Volume Set)
Guilty Pleasure
- Southern Baptist Identity: An Evangelical Denomination Faces the Future
Exiled: Voices of the Southern Baptist Convention Holy War- In the Name of the Father: The Rhetoric of the New Southern Baptist Convention
- Flannery O’Conner: The Complete Stories
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Preaching Colloquium
Speaking God’s Words: A Practical Theology of PreachingThe Sermon as God’s Word: Theologies for PreachingFeed My Sheep: A Passionate Plea for PreachingFamine in the LandPreaching and PreachersSupremacy of God in Preaching, TheThe Preacher’s Portrait: Some New Testament Word Studies
Doctrinal Preaching Seminar
Systematic TheologyChristian TheologyOld Wine in New Wineskins: Doctrinal Preaching in a Changing WorldPreaching the Whole Bible as Christian Scripture: The Application of Biblical Theology to Expository PreachingRomans: Righteousness from Heaven (Preaching the Word)Preaching Doctrine: For the Twenty-First Century (Fortress Resources for Preaching)Preaching with Bold Assurance: A Solid and Enduring Approach to Engaging Exposition (Bold Assurance Series, 2)
And for the Fall 2012 Semester:
american religious history to 1860
Jonathan Edwards: A Life- The Enlightenment in America (Galaxy Books)
- God of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution
- Nathaniel Taylor, New Haven Theology, and the Legacy of Jonathan Edwards (Religion in America Series (Oxford University Press).)
- A Shopkeeper’s Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837 (American Century)
- Charles Hodge: Guardian of American Orthodoxy
- What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (Oxford History of the United States)
- Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt
- The Gentlemen Theologians: American Theology in Southern Culture 1795-1860
- America’s God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln