Thanks to the generosity of the Lilly Endowment and Calvin Theological Seminary, I get to lead a cohort of preachers this year interested in improving our craft.

Here’s the list of books we’ll be reading, in case you are interested:

Preaching Gospel, Essays in Honor of Richard Lischer, edited by Charles Campbell, et al.

Stumbling Over the Cross: Preaching the Cross and Resurrection Today by Sancken and Wilson

Giving Blood: A Fresh Paradigm for Preaching by Leonard Sweet

Classical Rhetoric and Its Christian and Secular Tradition from Ancient to Modern Times by George A. Kennedy

Rhetoric by Aristotle

Preaching: Communicating Faith in an Age of Skepticism by Timothy Keller

Communicating for a Change by Andy Stanley

Upright Citizens Brigade Comedy Improvisation Manual

P.S. I’m hosting a new workshop to help preachers engage their hearers without being too tied to their manuscripts. You can read more about it here.