NTS Preaching Faculty | July 2009

Here, we feature books recommended by three NTS faculty and/or adjunct faculty members who have recently taught preaching courses at NTS.

FROM DR. STEVE ESTEP  |  Senior Pastor, Clarksville (TN) Grace Church of the Nazarene

• Creative Preaching on the Sacraments by Craig and Lester Ruth Satterlee (Discipleship Resources, 2001).
• Preaching to Pluralists: How to Proclaim Christ in a Postmodern Age by Chris Altrock (Chalice Press, 2004).
• They Like to Never Quit Praisin’ God: The Role of Celebration in Preaching by Frank A. Thomas (The Pilgrim Press, 1997).

FROM DR. JIM FITZGERALD  |  Pastor, Duncanville (TX) Trinity Church of the Nazarene

• Preaching and the Literary Forms of the Bible by Thomas G. Long (Fortress Press, 1989).
• The Preaching Life by Barbara Brown Taylor (Cowley Publications, 1993).
• Working the Angles: The Shape of Pastoral Integrity by Eugene H. Peterson (Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1987).

FROM DR. ROGER HAHN  |  NTS Dean of the Faculty, Professor of New Testament, Director of the Doctor of Ministry Degree Program

• Sacred Rhetoric: Preaching as a Theological and Pastoral Practice of the Church by Michael Pasquarello III (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2005).
• Who Owns the Bible: Toward the Recovery of a Christian Hermeneutic by Karl Paul Donfried (Crossroad Publishing Company, 2006).
• Wondrous Depth: Preaching the Old Testament by Ellen F. Davis (Westminster John Knox Press, 2005).