If you want power in the pulpit you have to earn it on your knees in prayer.
Tag Archives: Pastoring
The Preacher’s True Preparation
The Devil will let a preacher prepare sermons if it will keep him from preparing himself.
Ministry Is Much More Than Management
While management models from the business world may help us in becoming efficient at what we do in ministry, it’s only a whole hearted embracing of the servant model of Jesus Christ that will enable us to become effective at what we do in ministry. Efficient managers master routines, but effective leaders impact lives. ‘Managers are people who do things right and leaders are people who do the right thing.’
Douglas R. McLachlan, Reclaiming Authentic Fundamentalism, p. 41
How Much Does a Church Cost?
If the church was worth [Christ’s] blood, is it not worth our labor? The privilege of serving it is established by the preciousness of the price paid for its purchase.
John R. W. Stott, The Cross of Christ, p. 178
The State of the Church
According to the state of the pulpit will always be the state of the congregation and of a church.
J. C. Ryle
The Pastor and His Hymnal
Every pastor should know his church hymnal better than any other book except the Bible…. As in coming to know the Bible, the obvious way to master the hymnbook is to use it every day, each time with a definite aim.
Andrew Blackwood, The Fine Art of Public Worship, pp. 99-100
What Is a Pastor?
A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, the mouths of the publick, but what that minister is on his knees in secret before God almighty, that he is and no more.
Life Is Worship 