‘What do you recommend on preaching?’ is a frequently asked question that can be answered in a variety of ways.  There is always much to learn and there are many books to help us.  But whatever else a preacher reads, J.C. Ryle’s little masterpiece Simplicity in Preaching is a ‘must read’.  Ryle packs more experience and sanctified common sense into two dozen pages than many others manage in a lengthy treatise.  And, like all of his work, this one illustrates the very simplicity he commends to others.  Here indeed is a work whose value and usefulness is out of all proportion to its length. – Sinclair B. Ferguson