Quotes About Preaching

Preaching may move the hearts of men, but praying moves the heart of God.

The preaching of the Word must be absolutely central. Sound, expositional preaching is often the fountainhead of growth in a church.

A preacher can always improve, no matter how gifted he is.

If what you hear preached doesn't cause faith to come and build faith in your spirit, then it either isn't the Word of God or else you're not hearing it

The gospel cannot be truly preached without offense and tumult.

Preach [and live] as if Jesus was crucified yesterday, rose from the dead today, and is returning tomorrow.

Injury is done to the Word of God when, in the same sermon, an equal or larger amount of time is devoted to indulgences than to the Word.

To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching. For faith alone and the efficacious use of the word of God, bring salvation.

Satan, the god of all dissension stirs up daily new sects. And last of all which of all others I should have foreseen or once suspected. He has raised up a sect such as teach that men should not be terrified by the Law but gently exhorted by the preaching of the grace of Christ.

We have come to understand why it is so necessary to repeat the admonition of this verse. When Satan cannot suppress the preaching of the Gospel by force he tries to accomplish his purpose by striking the ministers of the Gospel with poverty.

We have come to understand why it is so necessary to repeat the admonition of this verse. When Satan cannot suppress the preaching of the Gospel by force he tries to accomplish his purpose by striking the ministers of the Gospel with poverty. He curtails their income to such an extent that they are forced out of the ministry because they cannot live by the Gospel. Without ministers to proclaim the Word of God the people go wild like savage beasts.

Returning to the subject which we had begun, I think it is made clear by these considerations that it is not sufficient, nor a Christian course, to preach the works, life, and words of Christ in a historic manner, as facts which it suffices to know as an example how to frame our life, as do those who are now held the best preachers

all the popes, monks and priests were to fuse all the matter of their preaching into one mass, they would not even then teach and present as much as St.

Those that will not regard good ministers' preaching cannot expect any benefit by their praying. If you will not hear us when we speak from God to you, God will not hear us when we speak to him for you.

What God's ministers say to us is then likely to do us good when the glory of God shines in with it upon our souls.

He rang'd his tropes, and preach'd up patience;Back'd his opinion with quotations.

Jesus is dangerous to society, to the status quo, and to contemporary piety. This clarity of preaching cannot be allowed to continue. It is like a cold, a virus that infects all who suffer and who love under conditions that only worsen, in a world that blames those who are poor and do not live up to religious expectations.

I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling. My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit's power, so that your faith might not rest on men's wisdom, but on God's power (1 Corinthians 2:1-5).

Belinda announced that she had secured four pulpits for Sundays in February and March where our "pre-candidates" would preach; if we only selected three pre-candidates, we'd have to find a speaker for the fourth. "Perhaps you'd like to dust off your preaching skills, Dana," she said. Though pleased, I said, "Oh dear god, let there be four pre-candidates.

Ministry does involve a lot of writing," said Sparlo. "And I love the sermon," I blurted. I knew, I went on, that there was much more to church than preaching. The more involved I'd been over the past two years, the greater my interest in church administration, governance, and polity. I didn't know if this interest constituted a call, I said, but I'd been having ministerial ideation for well over a year.

Teachers teach, preachers preach, but masters communicate all with their being.Students qualify and earn, disciples follow and learn, but devotees simply absorb in their compassionate seeing. Be a devotee, evolve and be liberalized , get MickeyMized.

One filled with joy preaches without preaching.

True biblical and expository preaching is aimed at more than informing the mind. It also seeks, through the Spirit of God, to sway the emotions, to direct the will, and to produce in the hearer spiritual change in keeping with Scripture. Everyone not only needs to hear systematic biblical exposition, verse by verse and paragraph by paragraph but also needs to have biblical truth forcefully applied by expository preachers to every aspect of our daily lives.

God's kingdom" in the preaching of Jesus refers not to postmortem destiny, not to our escape from this world into another one, but to God's sovereign rule coming "on earth as it is in heaven.