Top 6 Books for the Lord's Day: Sermons
The following article was originally posted on our church blog in 2018. As a pastor I am always reading commentaries and theological works, so it is important for me to keep the Sabbath somehow different. Here is a day of worship, and I have sought, then, to read material that will bring me into worship. To that end I generally confine my Sunday reading to sermons. There are, of course, other books appropriate for the day. I think, for example, of Octavius Winslow's Personal Declension and Revival of Religion in the Soul or some of the great Christian biographies (M'Cheyne, Bonar, Nettleton, Whitefield, Lloyd-Jones, Elias, Harris, Burns, Dabney, etc.) or histories of revival or any of the great books on the person of Christ listed in an earlier post. In this post, however, I will offer just 8 books - the best 8 that I am aware of - which contain sermons suitable for this day which ought to be for the Christian a kind of heaven on earth. ...