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Ever since Harry Emerson Fosdick posed this question 75 years ago, the need for continually improving the Sunday morning sermon has remained. Now a who's who of thoughtful practitioners and professors will help you do just that. Identifying the issues that challenge effective preaching today, they offer helpful suggestions for raising the pulpit "bar." 192 pages, softcover from Westminster/John Knox.

Seventy-five years ago, renowned preacher Harry Emerson Fosdick asked in Harper's Magazine, "what's the matter with preaching?" Fosdick's question is even more relevant today, as both pastors and laity acknowledge the need for improvement in Sunday morning's sermons. And who better for pastors and students to learn from than those who already do it well? The contributors to this book are a some of the best and most thoughtful preachers in the church and classroom today. In their essays, they assess the state of preaching today, identify a variety of issues that challenge effective preaching, and offer helpful suggestions for what can be done to improve preaching. In the process, they help to define what effective preaching is.