Satan, the god of all dissension, stirreth up daily newsects and last of all, which of all other I should never have forseen or once suspected, he hath 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.
I am very confident in preaching.
Some people do not like to hear much of repentance; but I think it is so necessary that if I should die in the pulpit, I would desire to die preaching repentance, and if out of the pulpit I would desire to die practicing it.
The therapeutic concerns of the culture too often set the agenda for evangelical preaching.
When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
I actually think one of most profoundly and deep pastoral moments between a pastor and his church is what happens between them before God in the context of preaching.
Preaching affects men; prayer affects God. Preaching affects time; prayer affects eternity
It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age.
Man makes up his mind he will preach, and he preaches.
In a smaller church your pastoring sets up your preaching. In a larger church your preaching sets up your pastoring.
Do as we say, and not as we do. [Lat. , Faites ce que nous disons, et ne faites pas ce que nous faisons. ]
The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing.
I will tell you what this people need, with regard to preaching; you need, figuratively, to have it rain pitchforks, tines downwards, from this pulpit, Sunday after Sunday. Instead of the smooth, beautiful, sweet, still, silk-velvet-lipped preaching, you should have sermons like peals of thunder, and perhaps we then can get the scales from our eyes.
When men's hearts are melted under the preaching of the word, or by sickness, or the loss of friends, believers should be very eager to stamp the truth upon the prepared mind. Such opportunities are to be seized with holy eagerness.
I believe in preaching to the converted; for I have generally found that the converted do not understand their own religion.
The Apostle Peter preaching on the day of Pentecost of the risen Savior, says, "God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ. " And He speaks of Him as the anointed One, exalted at God's right hand. The Gospel is the Gospel of the Risen Christ. There would be no Gospel for sinners if Christ had not been raised. So the apostle says, "If Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins"
The best means of preaching the gospel is by personal contact.
Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God.
The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power.
Remember, science fiction's always been the kind of first level alert to think about things to come. It's easier for an audience to take warnings from sci-fi without feeling that we're preaching to them. Every science fiction movie I have ever seen, any one that's worth its weight in celluloid, warns us about things that ultimately come true.