Playing marbles with diamonds, thats what we are doing in the church today.
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Vance Havner
Is the Church a hospital or museum? – Vance Havner
The church is a hospital for sinners, and not a museum for saints.
– Vance Havner –
Playing Marbles with Diamonds – Vance Havner
Playing marbles with diamonds, thats what we are doing in the church today.
– Vance Havner –
Don’t Lose Jesus – Vance Havner
It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God’s name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
– Vance Havner –
Preaching on Hell – Vance Havner
When I pastored a country church, a farmer didn’t like the sermons I preached on hell. He said, “Preach about the meek and lowly Jesus.” I said, “That’s where I got my information about hell.”
– Vance Havner –
Sharing the Gospel – Vance Havner
It’s not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it.
– Vance Havner –
Put Fire in Sermons or Sermons in Fire – Vance Havner
Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more
sermons into the fire.
– Vance Havner –
Worldly Christians? – Vance Havner
I’m convinced that a large percentage of people that we call worldly Christians are perhaps not Christian to begin with and that may be the trouble.
– Vance Havner –
Getting Use to the Dark – Vance Havner
They tell us now even in some evangelical circles that we ought to hobnob with Sodom and get chummy with Gomorrah in order to convert them … and these dear people are not turning the light on in Sodom, they’re just getting used to the dark.
– Vance Havner –