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Preach Like Samuel
Rutherford.
Walk the text phrase by phrase and make every phrase a window on Christ’s loveliness.
- ✓9 of his sermons, studied start to finish
- ✓Ten steps to preach the way he did
- ✓A fill-in outline in his shape, 9 pages
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— Why he’s one of the greats
Walk the text phrase by phrase and make every phrase a window on Christ’s loveliness.
Samuel Rutherford was born around 1600 at Nisbet in the Borders, took his MA at Edinburgh in 1621, and in 1627 became minister of Anwoth, a scattered rural parish by the Solway in Galloway. He later taught divinity at St Andrews and sat as a Scottish commissioner at the Westminster Assembly in London. His secret: he preached the loveliness of Christ in the language of the farm, the market and the marriage bed. He walked a text phrase by phrase, drew a plain doctrine from nearly every word, and pressed each one home with “ye” and “O!” But the doctrine always served a person: Christ the Bridegroom, the Host who “bears all the expense,” the King on the white horse. His images came from Galloway life (horses that stumble, burgess tickets, bairns at a locked door, a flagon of wine), and his hearers wrote them down because they could not forget them.
- 365Letters in Andrew Bonar’s edition
- 27Sermons on one story in Trial and Triumph
- 1627Became minister of Anwoth, Galloway
What makes his style unique
“One of the most moving and affectionate preachers in his time, or perhaps in any age of the Church.”
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What’s inside
Preach Like Samuel Rutherford — Walk the text phrase by phrase and make every phrase a window on Christ’s loveliness..
- 01Why he’s one of the greatsThe story, the numbers and what made his style his own.
- 02What he does9 of his sermons, studied start to finish, and the shape they share.
- 03How he does itTen steps to preach the way he did.
- 04His outlineWhere the time goes, movement by movement.
- 05Write one like Samuel RutherfordA fill-in outline in his shape, ready for your own text.
- 06SourcesEvery quote and number, cited.
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