Who are your to 10 favorit preachers?

B.J. Halo,
I enjoy listening to Dr. Lutzer and had not seen his name on this forum.

Steve

 

Dr. Bob,

I saw earlier that you had listed a Joel Gregory, would this be the same Joel Gregory of FBC Dallas fame??

 

In the words of Steve Brown, "I love Tony Campolo but I don't agree with him on anything except Jesus".

My mother is professor of sociology at Widener U. and Rowan U. (formerly Glassboro State) and former profeesor at Philadelphia Community College so she knows Tony Campolo personally.

I've gotten to talk at length to Tony many times throgh my mother and I've got to tell you, he's one of the nicest people you'd ever meet.

Tony's very far to the political left but he's no socialist and certainly not anti-American.

I'm pretty familiar with his philosphy (not to say that I might not have missed something somwhere) but where sis he say that he didn't believe in eternl security?

 

1. My pastor Leonard Peeler
2. My pastor Leonard Peeler
3. My pastor Leonard Peeler
4. My pastor Leonard Peeler
5. My pastor Leonard Peeler
6. My pastor Leonard Peeler
7. My pastor Leonard Peeler
8. My pastor Leonard Peeler
9. My pastor Leonard Peeler
10. My pastor Leonard Peeler

 

1. John Piper
2. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
3. Vance Havner
4. Lindsay Homer Jr.
5. Allister Begg
6. Mark Dever
7. Albert Mohler
8. James Merritt
9. A.W. Tozer
10. Daniel Akin

 

I'll do like Dr. Bob and just go with the ones I've "heard." These are not necessarily in rank order. Also not all of these are preachers in the typical pulpit sense, though most are. Lastly, they are "A" favorite for different reasons, not because they are all equally good expositors the Word, thus the diversity of the list.

<UL TYPE=SQUARE><LI>John MacArthur<LI>D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones<LI>John T. Gallagher
<LI>R.C. Sproul
<LI>Ravi Zacharias
<LI>Tony Evans
<LI>AW Tozer
<LI>Albert Martin
<LI>D. James Kennedy
<LI>Bruce Goettsche
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[ August 01, 2001: Message edited by: CorpseNoMore ]

 

Only CorpseNoMore would list his favorite preachers while simultaneously and helpfully providing links to their websites.

Gotta love him.

Elizabeth

 

Here are mine, many of whom are little known (for now)

1) John Piper
2) John MacArthur
3) Edward Williams
4) David Auckland
5) Buff Powers
6) Fred Moritz
7) Paul Caughill
"Closet favorites"
8) Stuart Briscoe
9) Chuck Swindoll
10)Charles Stanley

Chick

[ August 01, 2001: Message edited by: Chick Daniels ]

 

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by elizabeth:
Only CorpseNoMore would list his favorite preachers while simultaneously and helpfully providing links to their websites.
Gotta love him. Elizabeth<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Thanks Liz for the thumbs up! Most of the LINKs I provided were not necessarily the primary web-site of the individual in question. Rather they were LINKs where one can either hear or read sermons/messages by these persons. The exception being John T. Gallagher, who WAS a candidate for the pastorate at my former church. Our church didn't take him, and he went to the one at the LINK. He is a great preacher, our pulpit committee blew it.

thanks again,

CNM

 

I'm new at this message board thing, so please have patience with me I believe that there are only two preachers that I've heard with my own ears that I really enjoy listening to, and are as follows

1. Dr. Thomas Cassidy
2. Doug Fisher

 

Oh oh! Somebody is keeping an eye on me! Now I have to be good or livin'intheword will tell my wife!

 

I demand an official, Blue Ribbon committee to look into whether or not there was a quid pro quo relative to livinntheword's comments about Dr. Cassidy
Just kidding y'all

 

Here are my favorite preachers.

(1) Bro. Eric Capaci
(2) Dr. Bob Smith (My Pastor)
(3) Bro. Todd Lasseter (Asistant Pastor)
(4) Dr. Jack Hyles
(5) Dr. Ron Gearis

Those are all my favories on the grounds that they are the most truthful-from-the-Bible-tell-it-like-it-is preachers I know. And I know there are more.

 

Wow, this is a tough one:

1 - Barbara Brown Taylor
2 - Frederick Buechner
3 - John Claypool
4 - Fred Craddock
5 - Paul Duke
6 - Harry Emerson Fosdick
7 - Christi Sanders-Huskison
8 - Dock Hollingsworth
9 - Walter Brueggemann
10 - David Buttrick (accidentally put his Dad George earlier)

[ August 09, 2001: Message edited by: CJoshuaV ]

 

Fosdick is the only one you've heard of? Wow, I think the top four all did the Lyman Beecher lectures at Yale. I'll try to bio them as I can:

Barbara Brown Taylor - Episcopal priest with several published sermon collections and a book on preaching. Did the Beecher lectures (among many others), and was listed by Newsweek (or was that U.S. News?) as one of the ten most influential preachers in the country.

Frederick Buechner - You've really never heard of him?? He's one of the contemporary seminary staples. Presbyterian (I believe) and the author of several bestselling books. Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC's is one of the most famous. Pretty sure he did the Beecher lectures.

John Claypool - Baptist who became an Episcopal priest. Did the Beecher lectures and is extremely well-published in and out of homiletics (he also writes on pastoral care).

Fred Craddock - Disciples of Christ. Beecher lecturer. Professor Emeritus at Emory and worte a phenomenal textbook on preaching (among other excellent publications).

Paul Duke - Baptist. Former Professor of Homiletics and NT at McAfee in Atlanta; now at First Ann Arbor. He only has a couple of published books, but is writing the new Smyth & Helwys commentary on John.

Harry Emerson Fosdick - Him you know.

Christi Sanders-Huskison - Wouldn't expect you to know her, but someday you will. She's local (Georgia) but incredibly talented. Baptist (M.Div. from SBTS in Louisville).

Dock Hollingsworth - Also baptist and also local. I don't know if he'll ever publish, but he should.

Walter Brueggemann - Again...you've never heard of him? United Church of Christ and a professor at Columbia here in Atlanta. I think he may have done the Beecher lectures, but regardless he's one of the most respected OT scholars out there. He wrote Finally Comes the Poet.

David Buttrick (accidentally put his Dad George earlier) - Professor at Vanderbilt Divinity School. I think he's a baptist, but I'm not sure.

I really thought this was a fairly generic list other than my two locals. Then again, I barely recognized most of the names on the other lists. I'm starting to understand that we moderate-to-liberal baptists travel in very different circles from conservative-to-fundamentalist ones.

My guess is that you could define it as the "mainstream Protestant seminary educated humanities person" list. Certainly, any time I meet colleagues who are Duke, Vandy, Emory, Columbia, Union, etc. grads; these are the preachers we talk about.

Were we supposed to limit our lists to baptists?

[ August 09, 2001: Message edited by: CJoshuaV ]

 

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by CJoshuaV:
Wow, this is a tough one:

1 - Barbara Brown Taylor
2 - Frederick Buechner
3 - John Claypool
4 - Fred Craddock
5 - Paul Duke
6 - Harry Emerson Fosdick
7 - Christi Sanders-Huskison
8 - Dock Hollingsworth
9 - Walter Brueggemann
10 - David Buttrick (accidentally put his Dad George earlier)

[ August 09, 2001: Message edited by: CJoshuaV ]<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Well, I'm a staunch conservative SBC pastor and maybe I'm a radical, but I have read or heard most of these. Dr. Bob may seek to censure me now

In all seriousness, while I wouldn't necessarily agree with their theology, Craddock, Claypool, and Buttrick left serious contributions to the field of homiletics (Though I prefer Clyde Fant who is often associated with this group). Craig Loscalzo, formerly of SBTS in Louisville, studied during sabbatical under Craddock and Buttrick, if my memory serves me correctly.