Preaching Christ from the Old Testament

The Gospel Coalition National Conference has come to an end.  It has been an exhausting but exhilarating three days of glorying in the cross of Jesus Christ through preaching, singing, and conversation.  The highlight for sure was spending time with my great friend Jeff Lash (visit his blog here).

The theme of this year's conference was Preaching Jesus and the Gospel from the Old Testament.  While I am certainly still an amateur in the craft I'd like to list several books that I've found helpful.

Several books by Graeme Goldsworthy:  Gospel and Kingdom, According to Plan (my favorite from the pack), and Preaching the Whole Bible as Christian Scripture.  Michael Horton's God of Promise:  Introducing Covenant Theology was helpful in seeing how the parts of Scripture fit into the whole in a covenantal framework.  Along those same lines I'd have to add John Calvin's magisterial Institutes of the Christian Religion.

Other books mentioned by the conference's speakers include Edmund Clowney's Preaching Christ in All of Scripture, Alec Motyer's Look to the Rock:  An Old Testament Background to Our Understanding of Christ, and a couple of books from Sidney Greidanus:  Preaching Christ from the Old Testament and Modern Preacher and the Ancient Text.

The sermons from this year's conference were immensely helpful, which you can access here.