Let the Legends Preach: Sermons by Living Legends at the E. K. Bailey Preaching Conference - Hardcover

by Jared E. Alcántara (Author), Joel C. Gregory (Foreword by)

Let the Legends Preach celebrates the past and current legends of black preaching through preserving the sermons that they preached at the Annual E. K. Bailey Expository Preaching Conference. The twenty-four preachers honored in this book received the Living Legend Award for Excellence in Preaching on account of ministries that impacted hundreds of thousands of people across the nation and around the world. Not only does this book lift up preachers that are familiar to so many, names belonging to the great cloud of witnesses in black preaching over the last fifty years, but it also introduces a new generation of preachers to their powerful stories and homiletical wisdom. Each chapter offers readers short biographical sketches on the life and ministry of the preachers that were honored followed by the sermon that they preached or the lecture that they delivered at the annual conference.

Author Biography

Jared E. Alcántara is associate professor of preaching and occupies the Paul W. Powell Endowed Chair in Preaching at George W. Truett Theological Seminary, Baylor University, Waco, Texas.