Scholarship aimed at truly understanding what the biblical writers meant often does not filter down into the church and through the pulpit to folks who show up on Sunday. I think that's just wrong, but scholars rarely make any effort to decipher their own scholarly work for people outside the ivory tower.
No church can be prospered in which all the ministration comes from the pulpit.
The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit.
The stage is a supplement to the pulpit, where virtue, according to Plato's sublime idea, moves our love and affection when made visible to the eye.
Far better for a man that he had never been born than that he should degrade a pulpit into a show box to exhibit himself in.
Entertainment was transportation. You were supposed to take somebody out of their seat and bring them back in. You're not supposed to impose your values or your supposed knowledge to manipulate or control people. That was not your job. You were not supposed to use the bully pulpit of Hollywood to pound people with ideas. You're there to entertain.
I think President Obama has used the bully pulpit as a way to attack capitalism.
I think that Hiphop should be a pulpit for the people.
The best way to revive a church is to build a fire in the pulpit.
In the pulpit, I really feel like I'm in my sweet spot, I'm in my stride.
Instead of applauding sex addict pastors, we need to tell them to either preach the Gospel with their lives or get out from behind that pulpit!
My celebrity status allows me an opportunity, allows me a pulpit to preach and reach out to the people. Not even always preaching but just leading, motivating them by being a leader.
Yes, Haven, most of us enjoy preaching, and Ive got such a bully pulpit!
Prayer less pulpits will produce prayer less and powerless congregations.
The most important thing a pastor does is stand in a pulpit every Sunday and say, 'Let us worship God. ' If that ceases to be the primary thing I do in terms of my energy, my imagination, and the way I structure my life, then I no longer function as a pastor.
The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits?
God will honor the preaching that honors Christ, but abandon the pulpit that abandons Him.
No rage is equal to the rage of a contented right-thinking man when he is confronted in the marketplace by an idea which belongs in the pulpit.
I would rather be a preacher in a pulpit than a prince on a throne
Everybody's got a bully pulpit now, and everybody's mad. I don't blame people for being angry and frustrated about everything. I'm old, but I'm not pulling my pants up to my tits. I take deep breaths of air when I enter a room and celebrate the fact that I'm alive.