Quotes About Preaching

I think this is irresponsible preaching and very dangerous, and especially when it is slanted toward children, I think it's totally irresponsible, because I see nothing biblical that points up to our being in the last days, and I just think it's an outrageous thing to do, and a lot of people are making a living—they've been making a living for 2,000 years—preaching that we're in the last days.

On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say.

Fundamentalist preaching may and sometimes does induce a dramatically changed life, but its converts tend to be judgemental and elitist. And fundamentalism deadens the mind. Who can measure the psychological warping that can stem from constant exposure to a black/white, right/wrong, sinner/saved outlook on life?

He may not have the eloquence of a ready tongue, but will have that eloquence which is of the heart. His concern in the study will be not merely to prepare sermons, but, even more, to prepare his own heart. And when he preaches it will not be in feeble whispers, but with the spiritual vitality of the prophets and apostles, of whom he is a lineal descendant.

Among provocations the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times.

Every sermon should have a theme, and that theme should be the theme of the portion of Scripture on which it is based.

Your goal is to wash the minds of your people in the Word so that Christ is formed in them. That's biblical preaching.

Through bifocal preaching, those who hear come to understand and experience what the eternal God has to say to them today.

That which elevates the Christian to an essential superiority over the non-Christian is therefore not a higher level of morality as such. The decisive difference is to be found in baptism, where the miracle becomes effective. The sacrament gives everything and leads to everything. The preaching of Paul proclaims, not a new ethic, but a new salvation, a miracle which creates immortal men.

Patriotism is a survival from barbarous times which must not only be evoked and educated but which must be eradicated by all means - by preaching, persuasion, contempt and ridicule.

If your souls were not immortal, and you in danger of losing them, I would not thus speak unto you; but the love of your souls constrains me to speak: methinks this would constrain me to speak unto you forever.

I have been accused of so many things that are so untrue. Some of those accusations persist despite their being entirely false, but I'll just continue preaching the Gospel.

Thinking back, the majority of the conflicts I've had in my life have been a result of offering up my two unwelcome cents, crossing that line between constructive truth-telling and preaching.

He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.

The Word of God is too sacred a thing, and preaching too solemn a work, to be toyed and played with.

All work and no plagiarism makes for dull sermons!

The work of preaching is the highest and greatest and most glorious calling to which anyone can ever be called.

Consider six or eight hours a day sacred to the Lord and His work, and let nothing hinder your giving this time (to language study and practice) till you can preach fluently and intelligibly.

Prayer must carry on our work as much as preaching; he preacheth not heartily to his people that will not pray for them.

We must always speak of the efficacy of the ministry in such a manner that the entire praise of the work may be reserved for God alone.

Preaching is the pastor's main work, and preaching is heart work, not just mental work.

God empowered him; and my father, when he stood to preach, he wasn't preaching his message, he was preaching God's message.

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

I'm a private guy, and you don't want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads you in the decisions you make. You don't always pick the right path, but it's there in your conscience.