Do you think it's possible to discuss politics without preaching?
I see the necessity of preaching a full and present salvation from all sin.
I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.
He preaches well that lives well
The therapeutic concerns of the culture too often set the agenda for evangelical preaching.
Preaching that is boring is preaching that talks first about us and then only tangentially about God. Preaching that is faithful is preaching that talks first about God and then only secondarily and derivatively talks about us. The God of Scripture is so much more interestingly than we are.
I do now most heartily desire to live but to exalt Jesus; to live preaching and to die preaching; to preach to perishing sinners till I drop down dead.
One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived.
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.
Preaching nonviolence on principle reproduces the existing institutionalized violence.
If you would move me with your preaching, or with your praying, or with your singing, first be moved yourself.
It is the attitude of some leaders of God's people; they continually scold others, hurl reproaches at them, tell them to be quiet. . . . 'Madam, take your crying child out of the church as I am preaching. ' As if the cries of a child were not a sublime homily.
The preaching of Christ is the whip that flogs the devil. The preaching of Christ is the thunderbolt, the sound of which makes all hell shake.
If one preaches the Bible biblically, one cannot help preaching the gospel all the time.
After seventy years of expository preaching, I have yet to touch the hem of His garment.
Between writing, traveling, speaking, preaching, and doing my best to be a good husband to my wife and my three kids, that's about as much as one man or at least this man can do.
He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.
Preaching for life changes requires far less information and more application. Less explanation and more inspiration.
When I pontificate, it sounds so, you know, Oh, well, she's preaching. I'm not preaching, but I think maybe I learned it from my animal friends. Kindness and consideration of somebody besides yourself. I think that keeps you feeling young. I really do.
Preaching is truth through personality.