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PT Book Awards Are Back!

Matt Woodley

After a three-year hiatus, we've brought back our Preaching Today Book Awards. After assembling an impressive panel of judges, we have a clear winner for the best preaching book of 2015. And the winner is—drumroll please—Tim Keller's Preaching: Communicating Faith in an Age of Skepticism. No big surprise there, right? Actually, I was surprised that Keller racked up a near-unanimous vote. Check out our excerpt from the book, "The Movement of the Sermon." And just remember, we liked Keller before he was all that famous. Check out this Keller preaching skills article from 2006.

We also list your favorite sermons, skills articles, and illustrations from 2015. We call it our "Top 7 List." The sermons and skills articles covered everything from Halloween and Thanksgiving sermons, to "Hitting Your Creative Peak" and "R-Rated: Preaching Those Unsafe Old Testament Texts." And I'm proud to say our Top 7 illustrations ranged a wide gamut of topics: love, money, apps, stress, a bus driver, and even how engineers "saved" the world.

Tom Schreiner

Tom Schreiner

Finally, for the New Year (or any time of the year) we offer this solid sermon from Dr. Tom Schreiner—"Feeding on God's Word." Schreiner begins with a simple assertion: "It's important at the end of every year to preach a sermon on the importance of God's Word in our lives, both personally and corporately." Then he explores six reasons why God's Word needs to be central in everything we do.

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Matt Woodley
Editor, PreachingToday.com
mwoodley@christianitytoday.com

Matt Woodley is the pastor of compassion ministries at Church of the Resurrection in Wheaton, Illinois.

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