Preaching without preparation is like throwing ourselves down from a pinnacle of the temple and depending on God to send an angel to hold us up.
A. H. Strong, Systematic Theology, p. 32
Tag Archives: Preaching
How the Gospel Is Spread
Preaching is the Christ-appointed means for the propagation of the Gospel.
R. Ames Montgomery, Preparing Preachers to Preach, p. 175
Power in the Pulpit
If you want power in the pulpit you have to earn it on your knees in prayer.
The Preacher’s True Preparation
The Devil will let a preacher prepare sermons if it will keep him from preparing himself.
The Word and the Music
Our churches … must recover the centrality of the Word in our worship. Music is a biblically require response to God’s Word, but the music God gave us was not given to build our churches upon. A church built on music — of whatever style — is a church built on shifting sands.
Mark Dever, What Is a Healthy Church?, p. 67
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
Leaking Hands
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.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834 – 1892) on his preaching
Life Is Worship 