A hot iron, though blunt, will pierce sooner than a cold one, though sharper.
– John Flavel –
Preaching
The Greatest Need in the World and Church – D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
I would say without any hesitation that the most urgent need in the Christian Church today is true preaching; and as it is the greatest and most urgent need in the Church, it is obviously the greatest need of the world also.
– D. Martyn Lloyd Jones –
The Preaching Evangelist – EM Bounds
The evangelist who preaches for eternity is never great on numbers. He is not apt to count hundreds of converts where there is no restitution, no confession, and no glad cry which proclaims, “The lost is found, the dead is made alive again!”
– EM Bounds –
The Definition of a Poor Sermon – George Whitefield
It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.
– George Whitefield –
Whole Work for the Whole Church – AT Pierson
Witnessing is the whole work of the whole church for the whole age.
– AT Pierson –
We Need Conviction – Vance Havner
There is a lot of soft, sentimental talk about Him today that brings no conviction. When Isaiah saw the Lord, he did not feel comfortable! Neither did Habakkuk nor Daniel nor Paul nor John. We want a picture of Him today that does not disturb us, that smiles at sin, and winks at iniquity. I remember a man who told me he wanted to hear no hell-fire sermons but rather about the meek and lowly Jesus. Yet the poor man did not seem to realize that the meek and lowly Jesus said more about hell than is reported from the lips of anyone else in the Bible! We need a true and complete vision of God in His holiness and Christ in His glory that will bring us to repentance.
– Vance Havner –
Are You Prepared? – Vance Havner
The devil doesnt mind how many sermons we preach or prepare if it will keep us from preparing ourselves.
– Vance Havner –
The Gospel Always Brings Life – Jackie Pullinger
The gospel always brings life to the receiver and death to the giver. If the gospel brought death to Jesus Christ why would we think that in preaching the gospel it would be any less for us?
– Jackie Pullinger –
Work that Pleases God – William Tyndale
There is no work better than another to please God; to pour water, to wash dishes, to be a cobbler, or an apostle, all is one; to wash dishes and to preach is all one to please God.
– William Tyndale –