Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.
HT: @nwbingham
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Tag Archives: Preaching
When It’s Time to Find a New Pastor or a New Church
This month is the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. October’s quotes will come from Martin Luther to recognize this anniversary.
A pastor who fails to deal with sin is like a doctor who fails to deal with illness. You better find another one.
HT: @burkparsons
Require Your Pastor to Preach the Gospel!
If you always enjoy sermons, the minister is not a good steward. He is not acting wisely who deals out nothing but sweets.
Pastor, Focus on Christ As You Preach!
There are some Sundays I think I hit a home run, and then there are Sundays (more often than I care to admit) when I feel like my sermon fell in front of the pulpit. I need confidence in Christ, not my cleverness!
Trust God to work through yesterday’s sermon!
Listen to this encouragement from John Owen.
When you have preached well nineteen times, this will be no security for the twentieth. . . . If you lean upon books or men, or upon your own faculties and attainments, you will be in fear and in danger of falling continually. But if you stay yourself upon the Lord, he will not only make good your expectations, but in time will give you a becoming confidence in his goodness, and free you from your present anxiety.
HT: @MattSmethurst
Preacher, Present Christ’s Character and Beauty!
It is the supreme prerogative of the preacher, not to prove that God exists, but to unfold His character and beauty.
HT: @cslchsnmore
Preaching Gives Light
Ministers should be stars to give light, not clouds to obscure the truth.
Thomas Watson, The Beatitudes: An Exposition of Matthew 5.1-12 (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 2014), 156.
Pastor, Preach from Love
A sermon is not made with an eye upon the sermon but with both eyes upon the people and all the heart upon God.
Woe to Boring Preaching
To be effective, the preacher’s message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God’s present voice to a particular people.
The Trinity Works in Preaching
The preaching of God’s Word in the power of the Spirit is the activity that brings the Father and the Son down to dwell with men.
HT: @cjmahaney
The Power Behind Preaching
Light praying will make light preaching. Prayer makes preaching strong.
HT: @embounds
