'This book is about preaching and the kind of thinking I feel is necessary in our kind or world. There are fifteen sermons on the resurrection of Jesus preached over a period of many years. These sermons have not been revised; they appear as they were preached.....

The introductory essay sets the parameters of the subject. It took a long time to arrive at the concepts developed in the essay. I plead guilty, not to being a scholar, but I have been a student.....'    Myron J. Taylor

    Myron J. Taylor is Minister Emeritus of the Westwood Hills Christian Church, just off the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles, where he succeeded Dr. Jesse Randolph Kellems in that pastorate in 1969. He served the Westwood Hills Church for thirty years and retired in 1999. Born in West Virginia, the son of a coal miner, he graduated from Johnson Bible College (B.A.) in 1946 and from Butler University School of Religion (B.D.) in 1956 - that degree was elevated by Christian Theological Seminary to (M.Div) in 1972. His alma mater, Johnson Bible College, honored him with the Doctor of Ministry degree in 1980. Dr. Taylor also served Pastorates in Indiana, Ohio and Georgia. The Myron J. Taylor lectureship in preaching was established at Emmanuel School of Religion, where he has served as Adjunct Professor of Preaching for the past twenty-five years. His previous books are "Preacher of the Gospel" (1999) and "Rotary's Four-Way Test" (2002). He has spoken for many conventions and lectureships. Preaching has been his priority during his sixty-four years of ministry.