The Bible and the Calendar: The Minister's Guide to Pulpit Planning by Thomas D. Campbell is a study of various systematic approaches to text selection and sermon planning.

Planning and text selection are important ingredients in a preacher's work. "Saturday night specials" (sermons created out of a frantic search for a scripture passage and possible message) are all too familiar to many. Lack of a systematic approach will exhaust the preacher and weaken one's pulpit ministry. This book can be a help to those who want to be faithful preachers rightly handling the word of God.