Who is your favorite preacher? Who would you rank in the top ten

Pastor Jordan Cooper

My pastor

There is not a whole lot of preachers I would consider great teachers. For example, I would toss out all of jsimms choices as semi-pelagian/Arminian preachers who have a man-centered teaching style.
The only two I can think of off the top are Alistair Begg and John Piper. Both are Godward when they teach. I like listening to Michael Horton, but he's not really a preacher. An excellent female teacher is Nancy Guthrie. She would put most preachers to shame with her knowledge and God gifted ability to teach. She doesn't believe women should be pastor's, however, so I guess she can't be on this list.
Like Josiah, my pastor is gifted as a preacher.

For the most part I like Andy Stanley's message but he is so dreadfully repetitive. I've seen a number of videos of him speaking and on almost every occasion I've ended up with the impression that I spent 20-30 minutes of my life listening to a message that could have been condensed into 5 minutes without losing anything useful.

My father in law and my pastor. I don't listen to others online.

I'm glad my church uploads the sermons on their wed site. I tend to get more out of them when I listen to them again later with less distractions.

Lämmchen said:

I like to listen to my current pastor as well as previous ones from my other churches I used to attend. Online I like to listen to Pastor Jonathan Fisk who has a lot of YouTube videos that give wonderful scriptural explanation about theology.

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Of course I think Pr Fisk's theology is great but I like to recommend him to my kids because he keeps it light and entertaining which means they'll be more likely to listen to the whole video.

jsimms435 said:

maybe he's repetitive because he knows how forgetful we all are?

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The trouble is that he's so endlessly repetitive that by the end of one of his numerous cycles of saying the same phrase in 143 slightly different ways he's lost the point he was trying to make in the first place.

jsimms435 said:

I've heard four of his messages so far and read one of his books, so I guess i hadn't heard him enough to see that yet.

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I've seen a few of his messages. At first I thought his teaching was mostly good but he seemed to take a long time to not say very much. As I watched more of his messages I found his endless repetition became more and more tedious. Now I'm at the point where if my Bible study group wants to get another one of his DVDs I'd use whatever influence I could muster to veto it.

I don't know if you get the kind of marketing emails that offers you some form of trading advice or similar, that spends endless time chattering about "Look, you can't guarantee anything in this game" paired with endless examples of good calls that whatever superstar tipster behind the whole thing has made, and all the while you're just wanting to cut to the chase and find out how much it's going to cost to sign up. Then you find that somewhere after about 10 pages of waffle they say "it's normally $8,500 for a year but if you sign up right now you can have two years for ONLY $4,500", and at that point you just hit the X because even if you were curious before you're not curious enough to drop nearly five grand on it. That's how Andy Stanley's messages make me feel these days.