American sermon writers

Asahel Nettleton (April 21, 1783 – May 16, 1844) was an American theologian and pastor from Connecticut who was highly influential during the Second Great Awakening.

Raymond Charles Stedman (October 5, 1917 - October 7, 1992) was an evangelical Christian pastor, and author.

Rich Nathan (born December 1955) has been the senior Pastor of Vineyard Columbus since 1987.

Robert Anthony Schuller (born October 7, 1954) is an American author, televangelist and pastor.

Harry Croswell (June 16, 1778 – March 13, 1858) was a crusading political journalist, a publisher, author, and an Episcopal Church clergyman.

Kenneth G. McLeod (born 1962) is a Christian apologist, radio talk show host, teacher, writer and founder of the Christian apologetics ministry: Faith Worth Defending.

Henry Grew (1781 – August 8, 1862) was a Christian teacher and writer whose studies of the Bible led him to conclusions which were at odds with doctrines accepted by many of the mainstream churches of his time.

John Fullerton MacArthur Jr.

Bishop Adna Wright Leonard I (November 2, 1874 – May 3, 1943) was a Methodist Bishop in Buffalo, New York and the first chairman of the Methodist Commission on Chaplains.

Alistair Begg (born 1952) is the Senior Pastor of Cleveland's Parkside Church (located in Bainbridge, Geauga County, Ohio), a position he has had since 1983.

Atticus Greene Haygood (1839 – 1896) was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

John Cowper Granbery (1829–1907) was an American clergyman of the Southern Methodist Episcopal church.

John Wesley Hardt (born 14 July 1921) is a retired American Bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected in 1980.

Joseph Cummings (March 3, 1817 – May 7, 1890) was the president of Wesleyan University from 1857-1875, president of Northwestern University from 1881-1890, and had been president of the predecessor of Syracuse University (Genesee College) from 1854 to 1857.

Joseph Lord (30 June 1672 – 1748) was a Puritan pastor in colonial America in the late 17th century and early 18th century.

Joshua Soule (August 1, 1781 – March 6, 1867) was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church (elected in 1824), and then of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

Robert Harold Schuller (September 16, 1926 – April 2, 2015) was an American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and author.

Skip Heitzig (born 1955) is the founder and senior pastor of Calvary of Albuquerque, a Calvary Chapel fellowship located in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Henry Bidleman Bascom (1796–1850) was an American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, elected in 1850.

Matthew Simpson (21 June 1811 – 18 June 1884), was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1852 and based mostly in Chicago.

William Henry Willimon (born May 15, 1946) is an American theologian and bishop in the United Methodist Church, who served the North Alabama Conference.

Beverly Waugh (1789–1858) was an Americanwho distinguished himself as a Methodist Pastor, Book Agent, and Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1836.

Elijah Hedding (7 June 1780 – 9 April 1852) was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1824.

Elijah Embree Hoss, Sr (April 14, 1849 – April 23, 1919) was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, elected in 1902.

Erastus Otis Haven (November 1, 1820 – August 2, 1881) was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1880, and the president of several universities.

Eric Winston Ludy (born December 17, 1970) is an author, speaker and president of Ellerslie Mission Society.

Samuel Parkes Cadman (December 18, 1864 – July 12, 1936), better known as S.

Sidney Greidanus (born 1935) is an American pastor and biblical scholar.

Samuel Johnson (October 14, 1696 – January 6, 1772) was a clergyman, educator, linguist, encyclopedist, historian, and philosopher in colonial America.

Dwight Lyman Moody (February 5, 1837 – December 22, 1899), also known as D.

John Stephen Piper (born January 11, 1946) is founder and teacher of desiringGod.

Willard's parents were Major Simon Willard and Mary Sharpe, who had emigrated from England to New England in 1634, settling first in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Increase Mather (June 21, 1639 O.S. – August 23, 1723 O.S.) was a major figure in the early history of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and Province of Massachusetts Bay (now the Commonwealth of Massachusetts).

Fred Brenning Craddock, Jr.

George Foster Pierce (1811–1884) was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South elected in 1854.

John Louis Nuelsen (January 19, 1867 – 1946) was a German-American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church and The Methodist Church, elected in 1908.

Josiah Smith (1704 – October 1781) was a clergyman in colonial South Carolina who championed the causes of the evangelical style of the Great Awakening and later American independence.

Reuben Archer Torrey (28 January 1856 – 26 October 1928) was an American evangelist, pastor, educator, and writer.

Willbur Fisk (August 31, 1792 – February 22, 1839), also known as Wilbur Fisk, was a prominent American Methodist minister, educator and theologian.

William Laurence Sullivan (November 15, 1872—October 5, 1935) was an American Unitarian clergyman, prolific author and literary critic, whose Letters to His Holiness, Pope Pius X (1910), was the last work by a U.

Zabdiel Adams (November 5, 1739 – March 1, 1801), minister of Lunenburg, Massachusetts, was born in Braintree, now Quincy.

Roger Williams (c. 1603 – between January and March 1683) was a Puritan, an English Reformed theologian, and later a Reformed Baptist who was an early proponent of religious freedom and separation of church and state, and a supporter of members of the Free Will Baptist movement.

Benjamin Morgan Palmer (January 25, 1818 – May 25, 1902), an orator and Presbyterian theologian, was the first moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the Confederate States of America.

Hazen Graff Werner (29 July 1895–5 September 1988) was a Bishop of The Methodist Church and The United Methodist Church, elected in 1948.

Robert S. Smith (February 7, 1932 – July 27, 2010), the Robert R.

Roderick L. Evans is an author, lecturer, bible teacher, and Christian apologist.

David Zeisberger (April 11, 1721 – November 17, 1808) was a Moravian clergyman and missionary among the Native Americans in the Thirteen Colonies.

Jonathan Edwards (October 5, 1703 – March 22, 1758) was a revivalist preacher, philosopher, and Congregationalist Protestant theologian.

Dennis James Kennedy (November 3, 1930 – September 5, 2007), better known as D.

Christopher D. Price (born May 3, 1976, in San Diego, California) is an American conservative Baptist pastor, theologian, and writer.

Charles Rozell "Chuck" Swindoll /ˈswɪnˌdɒl/ (born October 18, 1934) is an evangelical Christian pastor, author, educator, and radio preacher.

Abiel Holmes (December 24, 1763 – June 4, 1837) was an American Congregational clergyman and historian.

Abraham Keteltas (1732–1798) was raised by Protestant parents in New York and New Rochelle, where he spent much of his time among the communities of Huguenots in the area.

Arthur James Moore (December 26, 1888 – June 30, 1974) was an American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South (MECS), the Methodist Church, and the United Methodist Church, elected in 1930.

Arthur Tappan Pierson (March 6, 1837 – June 3, 1911) was an American Presbyterian pastor, Christian leader, and writer who preached over 13,000 sermons, wrote over fifty books, and gave Bible lectures as part of a transatlantic preaching ministry that made him famous in Scotland and England.

Calvin Kingsley (8 September 1812 – 6 April 1870) was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church elected in 1864.

Charles Henry Parkhurst (April 17, 1842 – September 8, 1933) was an American clergyman and social reformer, born in Framingham, Massachusetts.

Charles Woodmason (c. 1720 – March 1789) was an author, poet, Anglican clergyman, American loyalist, and West Gallery psalmodist.

David Swing (August 23, 1830 – October 3, 1894) was a United States teacher and clergyman who was the most popular Chicago preacher of his time.

David de Sola Pool (Hebrew: דוד די סולה פול; 1885–1970) was the leading American 20th-century Sephardic rabbi in the United States.

Davis Wasgatt Clark (25 February 1812 – May 23, 1871) was an American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1864; the first President of the Freedman's Aid Society; and the namesake of Clark Atlanta University, an HBCU.

Ebenezer Porter (May 5, 1772 - April 8, 1834), D.

Edward Norris Kirk (August 14, 1802 – March 27, 1874), was a Christian missionary, pastor, teacher, evangelist and writer in the Presbyterian, Congregational and revivalist traditions in the US.

Paul Johannes Tillich (August 20, 1886 – October 22, 1965) was a German American Christian existentialist philosopher and Lutheran theologian who is widely regarded as one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century.

Jesse Truesdell Peck (4 April 1811 – 17 May 1883) was an American bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1872.