About the Author: Christopher E.L. Toote, Ph. D., D.Min.
Dr. Christopher Toote is an ordained minister and a certified chaplain whose lifework focuses on ministerial training, development, and deployment of the laity and spiritual leaders in teaching, preaching, and practical forms of ministry. He has served for over thirty years in ministerial and pastoral leadership.
As an administrator of higher education, Dr. Toote has extensive management and leadership experience and holds a Ph.D. in Urban Higher Education and Administration and Doctoral degrees in Ministry and Theology. He has pursued theological studies at Northern Caribbean University, Beeson Divinity School, Samford University, Trinity Theological Seminary, Temple Baptist Seminary, Andrews University, among others. Currently Dr. Toote serves as Executive Pastor of Administration, Leadership, and Christian Education at Antioch Missionary Baptist Church of Chicago, Adjunct Professor at Northern Seminary, and an administrator at The University of Chicago.
Dr. Christopher E. L. Toote’s expose, “50 Powerful Sermon Outlines” is a brilliant bridge, connecting ancient world texts to current life application. This compilation of outlines is designed to be used as vehicles to help the preacher cross the bridge from a revelatory approach to the Word of God, to a practical, transformational, and homiletical approach to the sermonic moment. Dr. Toote’s outlines will empower preachers for effective communication for this current generation as well as generations to come.
- Dr. Gary G. Hayles Director, New Kind of Preacher, Northern Seminary Lead Pastor, Tabernacle Bible Church, Cincinnati, OH
Dr. Christopher Toote has written a master-preacher guide for pastors and teachers to learn how to outline a sermon, access a biblical text, understand multiple ways to interpret the Bible, and provide applicable meaning in today’s world. Dr. Toote understands how to prepare, present, and apply God’s Word. He brings a scholar’s mind and a pastor’s heart to his writing. This work is drawn from a deep well of experience in Christian and secular higher education and a lifelong practice of biblical exposition. He’s been on both sides of the pulpit- as preacher and parishioner. He has lived out the gospel on campus and preached and taught faithfully in congregations. This book reflects years of hard work from a student of God’s Word. He understands what it’s like to work throughout the week and be responsible for the work of the Word on a weekly basis.
- Dr. William D. Shiell President Professor of Pastoral Theology and Preaching Northern Seminary Lisle, IL
This collection of sermon outlines is a treasure trove of inspiration and the sparks that ignite sound biblical preaching and teaching. Each outline employs rhetorical devices and homiletical movements that may serve as a model for outlining any other sermon or lesson you may be inspired to deliver. The homiletics professor at Princeton Theological Seminary, Dr. Cleophas LaRue, made a statement that suggested that Sundays come quicker than sermons. Dr. Toote’s sermon outlines will help any proclaimer whose Sunday is approaching sooner than the development of the sermon.
- Dr. Gerald M. Dew Lead Pastor, Antioch Missionary Baptist Church in Chicago Director, South Side Center for Urban Leadership Affiliate Professor of Ministry Northern Seminary Lisle, IL
