Tag Archives: Preaching
Making the Scriptures Come Alive in Your Preaching
True preaching is never stale or dull or academic, but fresh and pungent with the living authority of God. But the Scripture comes alive to the congregation only if it has come alive to the preacher first. Only if God has spoken to him through the Word which he preaches will they hear the voice of God through his lips.
The Quality of a Preacher’s Library
The modern preacher in his study is a man with his tools. If he does not have the right tools upon his desk, he cannot produce rapid results and as high grade work as he otherwise may…. One can usually tell the quality of a preacher’s work by looking at the books in his library.
How I Feel Every Time I Preach
I felt when I was coming up to preach tonight as if I had been down like a little child to the sea, and I had stooped to the wave and filled my palms as well as I could with the sparkling water, but as I have been coming to bring it to you, it has nearly all trickled away, for I am not able to hold it by reason of my leaking hands.
Preaching Is an Invitation to a Celebration
In delivering God’s message, we do not ask men to come to a funeral, but to a wedding feast.
Charles Spurgeon, The Fullness of Joy, p. 59
Instruments in the Hands of God
Ministers are mere instruments in the hands of God. The doctrines which they preach are not their own discoveries, and the power which renders their preaching successful is not in them.
God’s Favorite Method To Make Christ Known
God makes Himself known today supremely in Christ, that He does so through the Scriptures, and that His favorite method of making known the Christ who speaks in the Scriptures is through preaching.
Pastor, You Have the Joy and Privilege To Preach!
[The] highest joy [of preaching] is in the great ambition that is set before it, the glorifying of the Lord and the saving of the souls of men. No other joy on earth compares with that. The ministry which does not feel that joy is dead.
Pastor, What Are You Communicating?
Nothing is wrong with the message. Nothing can be. It is God’s Word! If they don’t hear the truth, cool music won’t help. If they don’t like the message, drama and video won’t help. Our task is to go on preaching repentance and submission to Christ Jesus as Lord.
Do You Recognize God’s Chastening Rod in Your Life?
The Spirit of God often sends home the reproofs of Scripture to our hearts; while we are reading the word we feel that it searches us and rebukes us. So also the Lord will employ his ministers to chide us. Little is that ministry worth which never chides you. If God never uses his minister as a rod, depend upon it he will never use him as a pot of manna, for the rod of Aaron and the pot of manna always go together, and he who is God’s true servant will be both to your soul.
The Lord will also chide you through your own conscience, causing you to judge and condemn yourself. The Spirit of God will quicken your understanding, and then it will be said of you as of David, “David’s heart smote him.” It is hard hitting when the heart smites, for it comes to such close quarters, but blessed is that man who can thus be corrected: it is a sad sign when conscience is too dead to be of any service in this direction.
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