It has been my experience that books on preaching lift up the wrong kind of sermons as examples. They tend to teach you to prepare academic outlines so vague and general that they are robbed of power.
For instance, here’s an outline for a sermon based on 1 Corinthians 12, “The Corinthians and Spiritual Gifts:”
(Does that title make you want to sit up and listen?) Keep reading
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William Henry Griffith Thomas
Among the books that Griffith Thomas wrote was The Principles of Theology: An Introduction to the Thirty Nine Articles. In his introduction to the seventh edition of The Principles of Theology, J. I. Packer makes this observation.
As in general terms Calvin's 1559 Institutes rounds off the forty-year Reformation era in European theology, so in general terms The Principles of Theology may be said to have rounded off a four-hundred-year era of Protestant Anglicanism, and in particular to have summed up a century of vigilant scholarship which, in the face of what looked like Rome's Trojan horse in the Church of England, had sought to vindicate historic Protestantism as authentically Anglican and the only position with more than squatter's rights within the Establishment.
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