From the Back Cover

Acclaim for Preaching has been predictably swift.  Richard Lischer, associate professor of homiletics at Duke University , asserts:

“Fred Craddock’s Preaching is a book filled with practical wisdom.  It is free of the homiletical prescriptions that too often confined the preacher’s creativity.  In place of rules, Craddock invites his readers to participate with him in the whole cycle of the preparation and delivery of sermons, and to do so in such a way that readers supplement the author’s ideas with their own experiences and insights.  Best of all, the book is free of jargon and the technical language of homiletics and theology.  Preaching is a liberating book, one that preachers and teachers of preaching have been waiting for.”