Tag Archives: Preaching
Laboring To Learn and To Teach
The ministry of the word is a cooperative activity, in which the laity are to labor to learn just as hard as the minister labors to teach.
HT: @MarkDever
Practice What You Preach
Apply yourself wholly to the text; apply the text wholly to yourself.
Short, Annotated Bibliography of Nehemiah
I recently finished a series of messages in the book of Nehemiah. Click on the link below for an annotated bibliography of the books I used. Bear in mind that the comments were made based on their usefulness to me personally. You may find the books to have greater or lesser influence if you were to use them.
CLICK HERE FOR ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NEHEMIAH
Preach Christ for Christ’s Sake
A man cannot be a faithful minister, until he preaches Christ for Christ’s sake–until he gives up striving to attract people to himself, and seeks only to attract them to Christ!
The Sermon Is a Redemptive Event
More profitable is the recognition that we are not preaching so that people can pass a test given later on the material in the sermon but so that they can understand and respond to the Word of God during the sermon. The sermon itself is a “redemptive event,” a present tool of the Spirit to transform listener’ minds, hearts and wills.
Pastor, Root Your Preaching in Reality
Root your preaching in reality, remembering that the people before you have doubts, fears and anxieties gnawing at their faith.
Peter Marshall Sr. (1902-1949), U. S. Senate Chaplain (1947-1949)
HT: @preachingtoday
The Glory of Preaching
The glory of preaching is not to strong-arm people into doing what they don’t want to do, but to have such love in them arise that they want to do and are able to do what God delights in.
The Great Design for the Christian Preacher
The great design and intention of the office of a Christian preacher are to restore the throne and dominion of God in the souls of men; to display in the most lively colours, and proclaim in the clearest language, the wonderful perfections, offices, and grace of the Son of God; and to attract the souls of men into a state of everlasting friendship with Him.’
Cotton Mather in John MacArthur, 1 Timothy (Chicago: Moody Press, 1995), 199.
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