In this week’s episode, Dr. Robert Smith Jr. and I discuss captivating preaching. Robert Smith Jr. serves as Distinguished Professor of Divinity at Beeson Divinity School. Before assuming this role, Smith served as Professor of Christian Preaching at Beeson for more than 25 years and held the Charles T. Carter Baptist Chair of Divinity. Previously, he served as the Carl E. Bates Associate Professor of Christian Preaching at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.
Smith is the 2017 E. K. Bailey Expository Preaching Conference Living Legend. He is a contributing editor for Preparing for Christian Ministry, a study of Christian ministry in the African American church, and is co-editor of A Mighty Long Journey. Additionally, he has served as an editor of Our Sufficiency Is of God: Essays on Preaching in Honor of Gardner C. Taylor (Mercer University Press, Macon, Georgia, 2010) and Worship, Tradition, and Engagement: Essays in Honor of Timothy George (Eugene, OR: Pickwick, 2018).
He wrote Doctrine That Dances: Bringing Doctrinal Preaching and Teaching to Life (B&H Publishing Group, Nashville, 2008), which was selected as the winner of the 2008 Preaching Book of the Year Award by Preaching magazine and the 2009 Preaching Book of the Year Award by Christianity Today’s Preaching.com. In 2010, Preaching magazine named Doctrine That Dances one of the 25 most influential books on preaching of the previous 25 years.
He also wrote The Oasis of God: From Mourning to Morning: Biblical Insights from Psalms 42 and 43. His latest book is Christ-Centered Exposition Commentary: Exalting Jesus in Joshua (B&H Publishing Group, Nashville).
