Andy Crouch: Why We Can’t Change the World
Preaching and Culture, Book Reviews Glenn Watson Preaching and Culture, Book Reviews Glenn Watson

Andy Crouch: Why We Can’t Change the World

The conversation on Christianity and culture has been enriched and stimulated in recent years by the insights of Andy Crouch. In his book, Culture Making: Recovering our Creative Calling, Crouch has offered his own taxonomy of Christian responses to culture. He identifies four strategies for cultural change, based primarily on the record of American Evangelicals in the past century.

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Review: Wired for Story
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Review: Wired for Story

Can preachers learn anything from specialists in communication who have no direct interest in preaching? We’d better. In fact, we always have. From the New Testament onward, Christian preaching has “baptized” the prevailing rhetoric of each era in service of the gospel. For this reason, I occasionally like to read a book written by a contemporary rhetorician.

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Review: Biblical Theology and Preaching
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Review: Biblical Theology and Preaching

Must Christ be preached from every text? Is it realistic, or even right, to expect that every sermon should proclaim the Gospel? Can you be true to the original intent of the human author behind the text while also tying it to the grand intent of the divine author over the text? Graeme Goldsworthy would answer each of these questions with a resounding “yes!”

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Review: Telling God’s Story
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Review: Telling God’s Story

If you are mainly interested in continuing to preach the way we always have, only better, you should probably avoid this book. John Wright is not willing to allow us to pursue business as usual, at least not without taking a hard look at what “business as usual” actually is.

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