Simplicity in Preaching (J. C. Ryle)

Simplicity in Preaching

‘What do you recommend on preaching?’ is a frequently asked question that can be answered in a variety of ways. There is always much to learn and there are many books to help us. But whatever else a preacher reads, J.C. Ryle’s little masterpiece Simplicity in Preaching is a ‘must read’.

Ryle packs more experience and sanctified common sense into two dozen pages than many others manage in a lengthy treatise. And, like all of his work, this one illustrates the very simplicity he commends to others. Here indeed is a work whose value and usefulness is out of all proportion to its length.” — Sinclair B. Ferguson

“It’s short and so helpful that I think I can say without exaggeration that every preacher should try to read J. C. Ryle’s Simplicity in Preaching.  The 22-page booklet began as an address to a group of clergy at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London in the latter part of the 19th century. Do yourself and your hearers a favor—take 30 minutes sometime in the next month to read Ryle on preaching.” — Kevin DeYoung