Every time we look upon our congregations, let us believingly remember that they are the purchase of Christ’s blood, and therefore should be regarded by us with the deepest interest and the most tender affection.
HT: @cjmahaney
Tag Archives: Ministry
Preach the Word
We must preach more upon the great texts of the Scriptures, the tremendous passages whose vastness almost terrify us as we approach them.
The Highest Form of Worship
Pastor, you may think today that your ministry of the Word yesterday didn’t amount to much, but what you did was an act of worship. By faith, rest in that truth today.
The highest form of worship is the preaching of God’s Word.
HT: @expositormag
Pastor, Get Ready to Preach Next Sunday!
No sermon is ready for preaching, not ready for writing out, until we can express its theme in a short, pregnant sentence clear as a crystal.
What Did They Come to Hear from You Yesterday, Pastor?
If any here do expect fine preaching from me this day, they will, in all probability, go away disappointed. For I came not here to shoot over people’s heads; but, if the Lord shall be pleased to bless me, to reach their hearts.
George Whitefield (1714 – 1770)
HT: @whitefieldg
What Motivates Your Ministry?
Pastor, my prayer for you today is that you will have grace for the successes or failures of yesterday so that you may continue this week by grace, doing the impossible ministry God called you to do.
If we give God service it must be because He gives us grace. We work for Him because He works in us.
Charles Spurgeon (1834 – 1892)
HT: @chspurgeon
Spirit-filled Preaching
Ministers are like trumpets, which make no sound if breath be not breathed into them. Or like Ezekiel’s wheels, which move not unless the Spirit move them. Or like Elisha’s servants whose presence does no good unless Elisha’s spirit be there also.
Your Sermon Was Only Half as Good as You Think
Thank you for your patience while I took a break during a time of weakness at the beginning of the holiday season. Please pray for my family!
Here is a quote I forget until I’m done preaching on Sunday, and then I’m glad its true after I’m done. It reminds me of something one of my seminary professors said (to the following effect): “You’re half as good as you think you are, but twice as good as your critics say you are.”
“Do not imagine when you hear a sermon being made useful, that it was the sermon itself that did the work.”
Charles Spurgeon (1834 – 1892)
HT: @cjmahaney
What We Do When We Preach
The object of all true preaching is the heart: we aim at divorcing the heart from sin, and wedding it to Christ.
Charles Spurgeon (1834 – 1892)
HT: @Spurgeon_
Preach Christ and No Other Thing
In order for our heart to be illuminated and to learn to see God correctly, we must preach Christ alone and no other thing!
HT: @gospel_project
Life Is Worship 