Helmut Thielicke first came to prominence as a German Lutheran minister during the last days of the Second World War in Stuttgart. In the face of bombing raids and Nazi opposition, Thielicke carried on preaching to a congregation of thousands. After the war was over, he joined the faculty of the University of Tübingen as Rector and Professor of Systematic Theology, later becoming the Rector of the University of Hamburg. During this time, he also became a world traveller, lecturing and preaching in the United States, South Africa, Australia and Latin America. He died in Hamburg in 1986.

;A reading of these lectures will humble the most accomplished preacher.

• Translator's PrefaceEncounter with Spurgeonby Helmut ThielickeSelections from "Lectures to My Students" and Two Sermonsby Charles Haddon Spurgeon1. On Conversion as Our Aim2. The Holy Spirit in Connection with Our Ministry3. Earnestness: Its Marring and Maintenance4. The Necessity of Ministerial Progress5. The Need of Decision for the Truth6. On Spiritualizing7. The Preacher's Private Prayer8. Our Public Prayer9. On the Voice10. Posture, Action, Gesture, Etc.11. Open-Air Preaching12. The Faculty of Impromptu Speech13. Sermons: Their Matter14. To Workers with Slender Apparatus15. The Blind Eye and the Deaf Ear16. The Minister's Fainting Fits17. The Minister's Ordinary Conversation18. Attention!Mark of Faith (Sermon)The Chaff Driven Away (Sermon)

Helmut Thielicke first came to prominence as a German Lutheran minister during the last days of the Second World War in Stuttgart. In the face of bombing raids and Nazi opposition, Thielicke carried on preaching to a congregation of thousands. After the war was over, he joined the faculty of the University of Tübingen as Rector and Professor of Systematic Theology, later becoming the Rector of the University of Hamburg. During this time, he also became a world traveller, lecturing and preaching in the United States, South Africa, Australia and Latin America. He died in Hamburg in 1986.

;A reading of these lectures will humble the most accomplished preacher.

• Translator's PrefaceEncounter with Spurgeonby Helmut ThielickeSelections from "Lectures to My Students" and Two Sermonsby Charles Haddon Spurgeon1. On Conversion as Our Aim2. The Holy Spirit in Connection with Our Ministry3. Earnestness: Its Marring and Maintenance4. The Necessity of Ministerial Progress5. The Need of Decision for the Truth6. On Spiritualizing7. The Preacher's Private Prayer8. Our Public Prayer9. On the Voice10. Posture, Action, Gesture, Etc.11. Open-Air Preaching12. The Faculty of Impromptu Speech13. Sermons: Their Matter14. To Workers with Slender Apparatus15. The Blind Eye and the Deaf Ear16. The Minister's Fainting Fits17. The Minister's Ordinary Conversation18. Attention!Mark of Faith (Sermon)The Chaff Driven Away (Sermon)