Dr. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones was one of the finest Bible expositors of the 20th Century. His books and recordings continue to bless the church and be an inspiration to preachers around the world though he died almost 30 years ago in 1981.

Terry Virgo recently blogged some personal memories of listening to the Doctor preach at Westminster Chapel. Everyone I’ve ever spoken with who had the privilege of hearing him in person has similar impressions to speak of. I encourage you CLICK HERE and read Terry Virgo’s post, and then maybe get some of MLJ’s recordings to listen for yourself, and every preacher should read his classic book “Preaching and Preachers“. (His 2 volume biography by Iain Murray is excellent also.)   Enjoy, Phil

In this very funny short clip, the old warrior Dr. W.A. Criswell was 89 years old. This was, in fact, the last time he preached (1998).

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There is no alternative program for the building up of God’s Church to replace preaching. It is God’s ordained means (1 Corinthians 1:21; Titus 1:3; 2 Timothy 4:2.) So, the Bible gives us quite a bit of instruction about how to preach, including prescriptions on the content of our preaching and examples of powerful sermons.

In particular, two striking and very memorable pictures of what good preaching is should keep us on track.  One is from the Old Testament, and the other from the New.

1. Giving the sense

“And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people, for he was standing above all the people; and when he opened it, all the people stood up … So they read distinctly from the book, in the Law of God; and they gave the sense, and helped them to understand the reading.”  (Nehemiah 8:5,8)

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