There’s no doubt that the pastor’s calling is unique. It comes with unique blessings and unique challenges. Some of the greatest challenges are related to both preaching and to being a preacher—preaching as the actual task of preparing and delivering a sermon week by week, and being a preacher as the life and character that makes a man worthy of this task. These are the twin subjects of Rick Reed’s new book The Heart of the Preacher.
Reed currently serves as the president of Heritage College and Seminary in nearby Cambridge. Prior to that he was a pastor in both California and Ontario. Both vocations have given him the experience and authority to address this subject. As he begins the book, he explains how his years of preaching launched him on a kind of journey into the heart of the preacher.
I went back to God’s Word for correction and direction; I also listened to wise counsel from seasoned, godly preachers—some I knew personally and others I only knew through their writing.
In this book, I seek to pass along the heart-level lessons God has been teaching me over the past thirty-plus years of preaching. I’ve had the
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