The Message & The Messenger: A Guide to Basic Sermon Preparation & Ministry Protocol

The Message and the Messenger may be the first and last book you will need on basic sermon preparation. Written from a scholarly but pastoral perspective Dr. Tony V. Lewis President of Christian Bible Institute and Seminary provides a great concise guide in preparing not only the sermon but the preacher for a lifetime of ministerial service from the pulpit. In the opening pages of the book Dr. Lewis writes The call to ministry and to preaching is also a call to preparation and a call to study. This book gives the reader spiritual academic and practical ways in which they can prepare themselves for a lifetime of preaching.