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Making a Difference in Preaching: Haddon Robinson on Preaching Well
by Scott M. Gibson.
Published by Baker Publishing Group.
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"I welcome Making a Difference in Preaching for at least three reasons: utility, history, and promise." Making a Difference in Preaching offers a collection of Haddon Robinson's shorter writings on preaching, penned over a forty-year period. This book provides readers with a helpful understanding of Robinson's preaching theory, method, and practice. This collection illuminates the key differences between good preaching and poor preaching. Each chapter contains discussion/reflection questions and a list of books for further reading. The book is well-suited for pastors looking for refreshing insights into their preaching, as well as seminary students or lay speakers. About the Author Haddon W. Robinson, was born in 1931, to immigrants from Ireland. They made their home in the Mousetown district of Harlem, described by Reader's Digest as one of the most dangerous areas in the United States. Haddon's mother died when he was ten. He became what we now refer to as a 'latch-key kid,' raised by his father. The rough neighborhood in which the Robinsons lived had its influence on the young boy. Haddon associated with a gang and one night a policeman approached the gang he searched Haddon and found that he had an ice pick tucked away in his clothing. 'What do you plan to do with this?' barked the officer. 'Chop ice,' said Robinson. The officer pushed him and sent him sprawling. That night changed the young Robinson's outlook on gang membership, and answered his father's prayers.Sometime during his early teens Robinson prayed the sinner's prayer and gave his life to Christ. Then, at age 16 he left for college at Bob Jones University. While in college he became interested in preaching and his skill at practicing it grew. When he graduated he received the top award given to a senior for preaching. In 1951, following college, he became a postgraduate student at Dallas Theological Seminary. During his final year at Dallas Seminary he taught informal classes in preaching. He left Dallas in 1955 for the First Baptist Church of Medford, Oregon, where he was assistant pastor. Robinson planned to be an evangelist, and after only a few years in Oregon, Dallas Seminary asked that he come back to teach preaching at the school. He spent nineteen years at Dallas Seminary. Robinson completed a master of arts degree at Southern Methodist University in 1960 and his doctor of philosophy in speech communication at the University of Illinois in 1964. In 1979, Robinson became president of Denver Theological Seminary, and published his textbook on preaching, Biblical Preaching: The Development and Delivery of Expository Messages in 1980. After twelve years at Denver Seminary, Robinson was invited by Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Hamilton, Massachusetts, to become the Harold John Ockenga Distinguished Professor of Preaching. He assumed the position in the fall of 1991 and is still on faculty there. Haddon Robinson has been teaching preaching for over forty years. This book is a collection of his writing on this important task. It is an attempt to answer the question he raised as a young person, 'I wonder what the difference is?' About the Editor Scott M. Gibson recieved his 
B.S., Pennsylvania State University; M.Div., Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary; Th.M., Princeton Theological Seminary; M.Th., Knox College, University of Toronto and his D.Phil., University of Oxford. Dr. Gibson is an ordained Baptist minister, he has served as a pastor and interim pastor in four churches in Pennsylvania and New York since 1985: First Baptist Church, New Bethlehem, PA; Harmony Baptist Church, New Castle, PA; First Baptist Church, Clarion, PA; and First Baptist Church, Lockport, New York.Dr. Gibson joined Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in 1992. He directs the Center for Preaching and the A.J. Gordon Guild, the Ph.D. program in association with London School of Theology. Dr. Gibson is past president and co-founder of the Evangelical Homiletics Society and is a member of several professional and ecclesiological organizations. These
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