Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them.
– Richard Baxter –
Preaching
March 2, 2015
Laughter and tears are the warp and woof of life. If you leave them out of preaching, you are leaving out life itself.
February 4, 2015
As I was walking in the fields, the thought came over me with almost overwhelming power, that every one of my flock must soon be in heaven or hell. Oh how I wished that I had a tongue like thunder, that I might make all hear.
– Robert Murray McCheyne –
January 31, 2015
Some preachers master thier subjects; some subjects master the preacher; once in awhile one meets a preacher who is both master of, and also mastered by his subject. The apostle Paul, I am sure, was in that category.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
January 5, 2015
Any manipulation of the Scriptures to make them speak peace to the natural man is evil and can only lead to ruin.
– AW Tozer –
December 16, 2014
The pastor is first of all a preacher and not a writer.
– D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones –
December 8, 2014
For unless your hearts are free from worldly hopes and worldly fears, you never will speak boldly, as you ought to speak. The good old Puritans, I believe, never preached better than when in danger of being taken to prison as soon as they had finished their sermon. And however the church may be at peace now, yet I am persuaded, unless you go forth with the same temper, you will never preach with the same demonstration of the Spirit and of power.
– George Whitefield –
November 25, 2014
The essence of this mystery is Christ, Himself. In these days certain would-be wise men are laboriously attempting to constitute a church without Christ and to set forth a salvation without a Savior. But their Babel building is as a bowing wall and a tottering fence. The center of the blessed mystery of the Gospel is Christ, Himself, in His Person. What a wonderful conception it was that the infinite God should take upon Himself the nature of man! It never would have occurred to men that such a condescension would be thought of!
– Charles Spurgeon –
November 24, 2014
We preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord! And we say to you, never be content till you clasp the Savior in your arms as Simeon did in the Temple. That venerable saint did not pray to depart in peace while he only saw the Child in Mary’s bosom! But when he had taken the dear One into his own arms, then he said, “Lord, now let Your servant depart in peace.” A personal grasp of a personal Christ, even though we only know Him as an Infant, fills the heart to the fullest, but nothing else will do it!
– Charles Spurgeon –