I would rather my descendants have greater abilities and a greater knowledge of the love of Christ than I do, much like standing on one’s shoulders in order to get a clearer view of the...

Comedy is a great tool. We are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them.

One of the bigger mistakes of our time, I suppose, was preaching the demonization of all judgment without teaching how to judge righteously. We now live in an age where, apart from the inability to...

I still believe that many Americans have a deep longing for that glorious moment when a sermon is more Biblical than American.

It is not opinions that man needs: it is TRUTH. It is not theology; it is God. It is not religion: it is Christ. It is not literature and science; but the knowledge of the...

A preacher shouldn’t preach just to make you feel good. Then it’s about the money not about the teach. He should preach the truth because the truth shall set you free.

My understanding from the Word of God is that I am supposed to preach for the maturation of the believer with a view that lost people are there.

Authentic gospel preaching always engages people with eternal issues.

The spiritual life of any congregation and its growth in grace will never exceed the high-water mark set by its pulpit.

the service”. Sermons might have been helpful in the later Middle Ages when even many Catholic priests couldn’t read. However, modern research has repeatedly proven that lecturing is the worst possible way to educate others...

But the three hundred and sixty-five authors who try to write new fairy tales are very tiresome. They always begin with a little boy or girl who goes out and meets the fairies of polyanthuses...

It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it.

Smartass Disciple: Master, you keep preaching the truth. They don’t listen.Master of Stupidity: Oh that’s not bad. That attitude keeps us in the business.

When a poor soul is somewhat awakened by the terrors of the Lord, then the poor creature, being born under the covenant of works, flies directly to a covenant of works again. And as Adam...

There’s a way to preach the Bible unbiblically…You can use the Bible as the springboard for all kinds of ideas, can’t you? Look around in here and find something that fits your fancy and then...

The problem with the prosperity gospel is that it makes prosperity the Gospel. God’s word is flawless, however if your interpretation of the word is wrong, your application will be wrong also.

There is a difference between criticizing people and criticizing a people’s uninformed ideals. That is, unless one defines himself or others by their ideals, then he is offended, and usually offended secretly. Because oddly enough,...

Preach [and live] as if Jesus was crucified yesterday, rose from the dead today, and is returning tomorrow.

Speaking and doing are two different actions springing up the two completely different results. But, the best result arrives when a man’s speaking of good words matches with his corresponding and timely action to benefit...

It was strictly forbidden to preach to other prisoners. It was understood that whoever was caught doing this received a severe beating. A number of us decided to pay the price for the privilege of...

To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.

You have to believe what you’re saying if you’re going to convince me. I just can’t break that rule, even if I want to.

I have attended church regularly since I was less than a week old. I’ve listened to sermons about virtue, sermons against vice. I have heard about money, time management, tithing, abstinence, and generosity. I’ve listened...

It does not answer the aim which God had in this institution, merely for men to have good commentaries and expositions on the Scripture, and other good books of divinity; because, although these may tend,...

Kindness is an open communication between hearts and not required to be learned by searching, teaching, or even preaching.

One should preach not from one’s rational mind but rather from the heart. Only that which is from the heart can touch another heart. One must never attack or oppose anyone. If he who preaches...

Aye, aye, that’s the way wi’ thee: thee allays makes a peck o’ thy own words out o’ a pint o’ the Bible’s

Whenever a day comes when I can stand and preach God’s Word without an agony of anxiety lest the people will not accept Christ; whenever a day comes when I can see men and women...

The more spiritual successes that Edwards experienced, the more he seemed to intentionally infuse his sermons with language deemed to move a person’s emotional center—their souls—to spiritually and physically respond.

I think this is irresponsible preaching and very dangerous, and especially when it is slanted toward children, I think it’s totally irresponsible, because I see nothing biblical that points up to our being in the...

I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.

The devil can get you through your flesh. He knows the button to press on your flesh and have a way into your mind. The flesh becomes a transport medium for evil things if not...

A man who first tried to guess ‘what the public wants,’ and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it, would be a pretty mixture of fool and knave

Edwards’s God was glorious, full of beauty, and seemingly uninterested in making people feel insecure. Edwards was a mystic, a man who didn’t simply write or preach about God, he experienced him.

Preaching never edifies a prayerless soul.

Much of modern preaching is anaemic, with the life-blood of God’s nature absent from the message. Evangelists centre their message upon the man. Man has sinned and missed a great blessing. If man wants to...

There Is Only One Gospel… But The Preaching Is Different.

I don’t like to hear cut and dried sermons. No—when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

When we concentrate on preaching what people WANT to hear we will only succeed in exciting their flash and depressing their spirit.

So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult...

Preaching vs Teaching:The difference between preaching and teaching: one makes you feel good, the other makes you grow.

A preacher’s job is preaching. So how come he gets to work on the day of rest?

When God breaks in, the only thing you can do is believe it or not. YOu cannot ask for a receipt of the transaction or a sign for the dubious. God does not offer to...

Then said a teacher , speak to us of teaching . And he said :The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple among his followers gives not of his wisdom but rather of...

No language about God will ever be fully adequate to the burning mystery which it signifies.

Stories arrest us. Parents use stories to capture the attention of active children. Preachers use stories to capture the attention of sleepy adults.

Compassion‬ is medicine to a wounded heart. When we show compassion to those who are suffering we preach Jesus in another way.

To be truly Christian we must both assent to the historical fact and also to receive the myth (the fact that what has become) with the same imaginative embrace which we accorded to all myths....

Whether or not an utterance can be called law depends on how it is heard, not on how it is meant. Law is defined by its effect rather than its intention, and its chief effect...

Theology without proclamation is empty, proclamation without theology is blind.