This continues my reviews in the Basics of the Reformed Faith Series. Eric Alexander wrote this primer on biblical preaching. I have heard Eric Alexander preach and he is a wonderful preacher; the Lord uses him mightily. However, I must say that I came to What is Biblical Preaching? with different expectation than the booklet was trying to meet. I was expecting the audience to be the newly Reformed layperson, the audience of the other booklets in the series. Yet, this is addressed to pastors as a reminder of how to preach biblically. The booklet did go through helpful information and the layperson could learn much as well. Eric Alexander gives eight useful propositions of Biblical preaching and proceeds to expound on each. Particularly memorable was the section on systematic expository preaching through a book or section thereof of the Bible. On the whole, I felt this was geared more a reminder to pastors as to how to do Biblical preaching than as a primer for laypeople in how to identify and especially how to listen to Biblical preaching.
