Preaching: How to Preach Biblically is a work that comprehensively provides the basics in the method of expositional preaching. It is written my John MacArthur and others who serve on the faculty at The Master's Seminary. There are 19 chapters, organized under five principal headings: Proving the Priority of Expositional Preaching; Preparing the Expositer; Processing and Principalizing the Biblical Text; Pulling the Expository Message Together; and Preaching the Exposition. Overall, I thought this was a fairly good book on the method of preaching I personally feel is the best, expository preaching.

Given that the book has multiple authors there was some variation, expectedly so, in the manner they with which they approached the subject matter of their particular chapter. Additionally, the clarity with which they dealt with their assigned topic varied. As someone who has only been preaching weekly for two years and made the move to expositional preaching one year ago I found that some topics were covered in an uneven manner, so that I didn’t really learn well of the topic at hand.

A marked strength of this book were the chapters written by MacArthur. He wrote a number of chapters, one for nearly every main section of the book. While I rarely listen to MacArthur preach I found the chapters he wrote to consistently be the best of the book, both in practical terms of the material covered as well as in the ways he continually sought to nurture preachers in the expositional method of preparing and delivering sermons. Overall, I would rate this as a very good book and worth the time spent reading it and in incorporating it's teaching into my own growth as an expositional preacher. ( )

From Daniel Christensen