He pressed home the fact that I must never miss any occasion of preaching to proclaim the person of Jesus. Often now when I enter a pulpit, I quietly ask, ‘Where is my Savior?’”

Joseph V. Novenson is senior pastor of Lookout Mountain Presbyterian Church in Lookout Mountain, TN.

As many who knew him personally will attest, Ed was more than a teacher of preaching. At the end of the day, he was a child of God who reveled in the love that his Father had for him in Jesus Christ.“

Julius J. Kim is associate professor of practical theology, dean of students, and director of the Center for Pastoral Refreshment at Westminster Seminary California. He is an associate pastor of New Life Presbyterian Church in Escondido, CA.

Iain M. Duguid is professor of religion at Grove City College and founding pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church in Grove City, PA.

“Anyone who has seen Ed’s artwork, or sung his hymns, or read his poetry knows that a deep love for aesthetics drove him. He did not simply love theology. He loved the beauty of theology¾better, the beauty of the God of theology. This I believe is part of why biblical theology was so precious to him. To see the unfolding mystery of Scripture in the revelation of Christ moved him.”

Charles D. Drew is pastor of Emmanuel Presbyterian Church in New York, NY.

“The aim of Heralds of the King is twofold: first, the contributors are eager to share the burning passion to preach Christ from all of Scripture, which was “caught” from Ed. As you will see, this infectious eagerness to attune our ears to hear the Holy Spirit’s witness to the Son in every text of the Bible, from every era of redemptive history, was something that we contracted not only from Ed the homiletician or Ed the exegete and biblical theologian, but also from Ed the sinner saved by divine grace, who himself stood amazed and humbled at the mercy shown him at Christ’s cross.

Our second purpose is to show that one does not have to be Ed Clowney to see Christ revealed on every page of Scripture and to broadcast the good news of his redemptive achievement in your own ministry, whether your calling is that of a pastor charged to shepherd God’s flock or that of one bearing informal witness among family, friends and coworkers.”

Dennis E. Johnson is professor of practical theology at Westminster Seminary California, an associate pastor of New Life Presbyterian Church in Escondido, CA and editor of Heralds of the King.

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“Preaching Christ from the Old Testament was the name of the class. For three hours each day Dr. Clowney displayed from both exegetical and theological perspectives how the Old Testament relentlessly points to Jesus Christ. Each day my heart burned, aroused by two conflicting emotions: fresh affection (for the glory and greatness of my Savior) and intensifying frustration. I approached Dr. Clowney at the end of the third class and declared, “I can’t preach Jesus Christ if he is not in the text.” I will never forget his response. He smiled, gently put his hand on my shoulder, and said, “You don’t know your Bible well enough.” He was exactly right. I finished the class with a resolve to spend the rest of my life learning how to preach Christ from the entire Bible.”

Arturo G. Azurdia III is associate professor of pastoral theology and director of pastoral mentoring, Western Seminary in Portland, OR, and founder of The Spurgeon Fellowship, the seminary’s ministry to pastors.

A whole group of us from Harvard did come to Westminster, and we never regretted it for a minute. There we discovered that exegesis was controlled by biblical theology, which in turn yielded the good fruits of systematics. We sat under the likes of Paul Woolley, John Murray, E. J. Young. But Edmund Clowney remained a central inspiration. It was he, more than any of the others, who opened the Bible to us. Ironically, in those days, many of the courses on the Pentateuch or the Psalms or Galatians were little more than painstaking refutations of the German critics. We were no doubt still in the era of Westminster’s origins in controversy, called to “demolish strongholds.” But many of us came from outside the Christian faith and did not worry particularly about these guys with funny names like Gunkel or Mowinckle. We needed basic Bible knowledge, and we got it from Ed Clowney’s courses in, of all things, Practical Theology. Whether homiletics, worship, missions, or the church, his sermon-like lectures took us through one era after another, climaxing in Jesus Christ.

As he got more and more excited about the structure of revelation, Ed spoke contagiously about the impossibility of God’s extravagant promises. How would he do it? What about Abraham rising up in the morning to sacrifice the only son of the pledge? For a people in exile, how will the very bells on the horses have the Lord’s name inscribed on them, and the cooking pots in the Lord’s house be like the sacred bowls before the altar? The answer: “Remnant and renewal! Remnant and renewal!”