Doctrinal preaching of the right kind is one of the most crying needs of our day. What is truth? always has been and ever will be the most basic question of religion. Yet many ministers keep repeating the trite and utterly false prattle that Christianity is not a doctrine but a life, and they preach accordingly. In consequence, their audiences, with no way of discerning between truth and falsehood, are completely indifferent to matters of doctrine….

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that the Protestant ministry is today working as hard at keeping the laity in doctrinal darkness as was the Roman Catholic clergy before the dawn of the Reformation. The Christian church has no greater present need than that of systematic doctrinal preaching.

R. B. Kuiper, "Scriptural Preaching,"
in The Infallible Word,
edited by N. B. Stonehouse and Paul Woolley,
(P & R Publishing Company, 2002 edition), p. 227-228.

Recommended:

Vincent Cheung, Preach the Word (PDF)
Vincent Cheung, Systematic Theology (PDF)

Millard J. Erickson and James L. Heflin,
Old Wine in New Wineskins: Doctrinal Preaching in a Changing World

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