Get inside the mind of a great preacher and teacher.
Like many pastors, the great British evangelical leader John Stott was always looking for illustrations and quotations to include in his sermons and writings. Beginning in the 1940s and continuing until the early 2000s, when he came across something he thought he could use, he captured it on a note card, labeled it according to topic, and filed it away in his study. When he used it in a sermon or book, he made note of it on the card.
After his death in 2011, these note cards were scanned and transcribed. Editor Mark Meynell, who worked at All Souls Langham Place with Stott, has selected the best of them to include in The Preacher’s Notebook. Here we see Stott’s fruitful and disciplined mind on display in over a thousand stories, quotations, excerpts from letters, book summaries, statistics, prayers, and outlines for talks on various subjects. Arranged topically, it is easy for readers to find material on a particular subject.
Whether you are a preacher or writer looking for a good idea, or an admirer of Stott who enjoys reading anything he writes, you’ll find something in The Preacher’s Notebook.