Tag Archives: Preaching
Pray for the Preaching in Your Church
A praying church creates a spiritual atmosphere most favorable to preaching.
HT: @hbcharlesjr
The Ministry of Motherhood
A mother at a crib with a baby in her arms can be even more influential than a pastor in a pulpit, with a Bible in his hands.
HT: @LewisKiger
No Better Preaching Than the Gospel
Pastor, on this Monday, don’t fret about what you think you didn’t say adequately or wish you had said differently or even not at all. Take heart from George Whitefield’s words:
“Other men may preach better than I, but no man can preach a better gospel.”
George Whitefield (1714 – 1770)
HT: @jeremysarber
Effective Pastoral Preaching
Pastoral preaching is effective when the listeners detect in the preacher’s manner a loving concern, and understanding heart, and a biblical approach to solving the problem.
Warren Wiersbe, Jesus in the Present Tense (Colorado Springs: David C. Cook, 2011), 76.
The Joy of Preaching
It is always sweet preaching for me when I feel that I come forth in the name of my Master — when I do not come to tell you what ideas I have woven out of my own brain, nor to put attractive figures before you, as I would like to do sometimes — but rather, when I come to tell you just what my Lord would have you know, telling it as a message to you from your God and cherishing in my own heart His great love toward perishing sinners. Then, indeed, to minister is joy!
A Message to Churches Reaching across 75 Years
So long as the church pretends or assumes to preach absolute values, but actually preaches relative and secondary values, it will merely hasten the process of disintegration. We are asked to turn to the church for our enlightenment, but when we do so we find that the voice of the church is not inspired. The voice of the church today, we find, is the echo of our own voices. When we consult the church we hear only what we ourselves have said.
There is only one way out of the spiral, and the way out is the sound of a voice, not our voice, but a voice coming from something beyond ourselves, in the existence of which we cannot disbelieve. It is the duty of pastors to hear this voice, to cause us to hear it, and to tell us what it says.
Fortune Magazine, January 1940
Prayer Is the Minister’s Ministry
A preacher whose chief power is not in studious prayer is, to that extent, a man who does not know his business. Prayer is the minister’s business.
Pastor, Arm Yourself with the Scriptures
Whoso is armed with the text, the same is a right pastor, and my best advice and counsel is, that we draw water out of the true Fountain; that is, diligently to read in the Bible. He is a learned divine that is well grounded in the text; for one text and sentence out of the Bible is of far more esteem and value than many writings and glosses, which neither are strong, sound, nor armor proof.
The World Doesn’t Need Another Sermon
The world does not need sermons; it needs a message. You can go to seminary and learn how to preach sermons, but you will have to go to God to get messages.
Oswald J Smith
Life Is Worship 