Anyabwile, Thabiti M. The Faithful Preacher: Recapturing the Vision of Three Pioneering African-American Pastors. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2007. Paperback, 192 pages. $15.99
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ISBNs: 1581348274 / 9781581348279
LCCN: BR563.N4 A59
DCN: 277.3/08092396073
Subjects: Church History, Preaching, African Americans
Thabiti M. Anyabwile is senior pastor of First Baptist Church, Grand Cayman Islands. He formerly served as an assistant pastor at Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C.
What makes for a faithful preacher? To whom do we look for examples? The preachers to whom we usually look are the likes of John Calvin, George Whitefield, Jonathan Edwards, Robert Murray M’Cheyne, and Charles Spurgeon. But, of course, there are many others to whom we can look. Thabiti Anyabwile turns our attention to three unexpected but fascinating examples of faithful preachers: Lemuel Haynes, Bishop Daniel A. Payne, and Francis J. Grimké. In this book, Anyabwile provides a brief biographical sketch of each of these men with samples of their printed sermons that have gone on in obscurity for far too long. This book is written for the church, pastors, and congregations alike. We all are responsible for the gospel ministry in one way or another. Of course, preachers will gain the most from reading this book. I thoroughly enjoyed it and have been dressing wounds from its sharp challenges over the past few weeks. I highly recommend this book to preachers. (Please read the rest of my review here…)
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