An oldie but goodie

Gareth Baudrillard-Jones

Wandering in a second-hand bookshop the other day (won't say it was in a state of ancient disrepair, but the graffitti in the rest room read, variously, `Squeaky Fromme is Innocent', `Rousas Rushdoony is my Homeboy' and `Tex Ritter Taught Me to Yodel') I caught sight of an old classice: P T Forsyth, Positive Preaching and the Modern Mind.  This is nearly a hundred years old but a classic of its kind (one of the things the pupils of Ritschl did well was write on preaching.....).  Any pastor out there who has lost sight of the romance and power of the preached word should sell all his has to get a copy of this.  I know PTF's often called a Barthian before Barth, but I wonder if someone at the Alliance might not consider a cheap reprint as a service to the church?  Don't forget -- it was reading PTF's The Cruciality of the Cross which changed Martyn Lloyd Jones from a preacher of regeneration to a preacher of Christ.