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Hard words, if they be true, are better than soft words, if they be false.
63 Volume Sermon Set - 1940.34Preaching063 Volume Sermon Set - 1940.34
We must not talk to our congregations as if we were half asleep. Our preaching must not be articulate snoring. There must be power, life, energy, vigour. We must throw our whole selves into it, and show that the zeal of God's house has eaten us up.
Lectures to my StudentsPreaching0Lectures to my Students
No man preaches a sermon well to others who does not first preach it to his own heart.
Preaching0You are required to believe, to preach, and to teach what the Bible says is true, not what you want the Bible to say is true.
Chosen by God, p. 12Preaching0Chosen by God, p. 12
Let us beware of despising preaching. In every age of the Church, it has been God's principal instrument for the awakening of sinners and the edifying of saints. The days when there has been little or no preaching have been days when there has been little or no good done in the Church. Let us hear sermons in a prayerful and reverent frame of mind, and remember that they are the principal engines which Christ Himself employed when He was upon earth. Not least, let us pray daily for a continual supply of faithful preachers of God's Word. According to the state of the pulpit will always be the state of a congregation and of a Church.
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Luke volume 1, (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1986) 128, 129Preaching0Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Luke volume 1, (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1986) 128, 129
Avoid trivial pursuits. You are a child of God, destined for glory, and called to do great things in His Name. Do not waste your life on hobbies, sports, and other recreational pursuits. Do not throw away the precious moments of your life on entertainment, movies, and video games. Though some of these things can properly have a 'small place' in the Christian's life, we must be careful not to give undue attention to temporal and fruitless activities. Do not waste your life. Employ the time of your youth in developing the character and skills necessary to be a useful servant of God.
Time, Hobbies, Wasted Life0Do not look for the Church nearest to your house. Look for the Church closest to the Bible.
Scripture0In order to get attention, the first golden rule is, always say something worth hearing.
Lectures to my StudentsPreaching0Lectures to my Students
Go offer your employer how much you offer God, see how long you last.
Worldliness0We don't know how much we've sinned in the same way a fish doesn't know how wet it is.
Sermon: The Greatest Words in All of ScriptureSin0Sermon: The Greatest Words in All of Scripture
It's Christ or nothing. And you better want it that way. Why? If it was 99.99% Christ and 0.01% you, you'd go to hell.
http://youtu.be/9W2fuFWUIL0 (around 54 minutes in)Gospel0http://youtu.be/9W2fuFWUIL0 (around 54 minutes in)
Saying, 'Preach the gospel daily, use words if necessary', is like saying, 'Feed the hungry, use food if necessary.'
Preaching0The Gospel does not call us to receive Christ as an addition to our life, but as our life.
Gospel0When will we realize that one of the greatest mission fields in the West is the pews of our churches every Sunday morning?
Church, False Belief0it is common for modern preachers to use the proverbial "we" in an effort to place themselves, humbly it is thought, within the mass of those needing the same message. Although there is a nugget of truth to this modern approach, it nevertheless undermines the basic essence of preaching--the prophetic.
Deep Discipleship, 24Preaching0Deep Discipleship, 24
How could we have such a low view of the gospel of Jesus Christ that we have to manipulate men psychologically to get them to come down and pray a prayer? ...How many times have I heard evangelists say, "It'll only take five minutes."? No my dear friend, it will take your life-all of it! "We're just trying to attract people and then we'll gradually bring them in further and further." That is what the cults do, that's not what Jesus did. Notice that in the gospels every time a great crowd is following Jesus, he turns around and says something so radical to them that most of them walk away. Of course Jesus probably would not get invited to teach evangelism
Gospel0Do you wonder about the trials in your life? Well let me just let you know the purpose of them is to cut away everything in your life, so that Jesus does become your life, and it's worth it.
Suffering0It makes me so angry, when men treat the glorious gospel of Christ as though it was a first step into Christianity, that takes ten minutes of counselling, and then you go onto greater stuff.
Gospel0You need grace! But someone says if you throw that much grace around it will be a liscence for sin. Only among the unconverted Church members. Oh they will take it as an excuse for sin. The genuinely converted will say this, if grace be such. If it be so large and so wide... depths I cannot sound. Then oh let me be holy!
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False teachers are God's judgment on people who don't want God but in the name of religion plan on getting everything their carnal heart desires. That's why a Joel Osteen is raised up. Those people who sit under him are not victims of him, he is the judgment of God upon them, because they want exactly what he wants, and it's not God.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWMrKcFKqzkJudgement, False Teachers0Ministers must not flatter, preach pleasing things, sow pillows under people's elbows, or throw sugar on them, when salt is necessary.
Preaching0The goal of the Christian life is the pursuit of an intimate knowledge of God that leads to a greater estimation of His worth, a greater satisfaction and joy in His person, and a greater giving of oneself for His glory.
Christian Life0It is only against the pitch blackness of the night that we see the glory of the stars. And it is only against the pitch blackness of man's radical depravity that we can begin to see the glories of the gospel.
Sin, Gospel0Idolatry is when you become the source of your own joy. Poverty of spirit is a wonderful thing.
Idolatry0I am very glad to see pastors wake up to the antinomian overcorrections of the "gospel-centered" movement.
Every sermon had to be:
The Bible says to do X.
You can't do X.
Jesus did X for you.
End of sermon.
But you don't believe the Gospel rightly until you obey Jesus.
https://twitter.com/Brian_Sauve/status/1744192523592196597Preaching0
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