Whatever Happened to Delight?
Preaching the Gospel in Poems and Parables
by J. Barrie Shepherd
Paperback
Price: £9.99
Publisher:Westminster John Knox Press from Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd
Published:September 2006
ISBN:978-0-664-22781-4
GoodBookStall Review:
This book will provide hope and comfort to all those who have sat under the well-intentioned tedium of a dull sermon. It is evidently intended for those of the Reformed churches who are preparing for ministry and to reinvigorate those already in leadership positions within those churches. Shepherd, through the creative use of poetry and a wide reference to the classics of the spiritual life, attempts to extricate ‘sermonizing’ from a predicament of its own making. It is to be hoped that his suggestions will make the experience of hearing the word of God as delivered from the pulpit as stimulating as, heaven knows, it deserves to be.
Reviewer: Simon Iredale (13/07/10)
This book will provide hope and comfort to all those who have sat under the well-intentioned tedium of a dull sermon. It is evidently intended for those of the Reformed churches who are preparing for ministry and to reinvigorate those already in leadership positions within those churches. Shepherd, through the creative use of poetry and a wide reference to the classics of the spiritual life, attempts to extricate ‘sermonizing’ from a predicament of its own making. It is to be hoped that his suggestions will make the experience of hearing the word of God as delivered from the pulpit as stimulating as, heaven knows, it deserves to be.
Reviewer: Simon Iredale (13/07/10)
