The Joy of Preaching

“Preaching,” writes Phillips Brooks, “is the communication of truth by man to men. It has in it two essential elements, truth and personality. Neither of those can it spare and still be preaching. The truest truth, the most authoritative statement of God’s will, communicated in any other way than through the personality of brother man to men is not preached truth.” 


This classic is organized as follows: 


I. The Two Elements in Preaching 

II. The Preacher Himself 

III. The Preacher in His Work 

IV. The Idea of the Sermon 

V. The Making of the Sermon 

VI. The Congregation 

VII. The Ministry for Our Age 

VIII. The Value of the Human Soul