“Strong churches are not gathered around weak pulpits.”
C W Koller
Expository Preaching Without Notes
Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1962 p85
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I recently heard a retired Presbyterian minister recall how someone who had had heard him preach at, if I remember correctly, a funeral service, told him, “You have a crystal clear voice and a crystal clear message.”
Is there a greater compliment for a preacher? is there a greater aspiration in terms of our ministry effectiveness?
What’s the point in having a crystal clear message but no crystal clear communication of it? What’s the point in having a crystal clear voice but no clear message to communicate with it?
May we have both for the good of our hearers and the glory of God.
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“The well prepared preacher will be able to speak two languages, the language of the Bible and the language of the people. Bringing these two together will help the people to hear the text speak.”
Peter Adam
http://beginningwithmoses.org/preaching/245/arguing-for-expository-preaching
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H York
Preaching with BOLD Assurance. Nashville: Broadman-Holman, 2003 p15
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“If you ask me how you may shorten your sermons, I should say, study them better. Spend more time in the study that you may need less in the pulpit. We are generally longest when we have the least to say. A man with a great deal of well-prepared matter will probably not exceed forty minutes; when he has less to say he will go on for fifty minutes, and when he has absolutely nothing he will need an hour to say it in. Attend to these minor things and they will help retain attention.”
Charles Spurgeon
Lectures to My Students
Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 2008 p156
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“Our Father, we are thankful that we have Your Word as a lamp to our feet and a light to our path as we wrestle through this matter of solemn responsibility to bring home the Word to the feelings and wills of Your people. We pray that You would forgive us where we have failed, where we have not been willing to do the head-work and the heart-work necessary. Give us help, that Your Word will come home powerfully to the hearts of all our people week by week. Help us to help Your true people on their way to heaven. We know that we live in a day of small things, but we also know that our charge does not change, in season or out of season. Give us grace to be the men and preachers that we ought to be to the praise of the glory of Your grace. Hear us, we plead in Jesus’ worthy name. Amen.”
A N Martin
Pastoral Theology Vol 2: The Man of God. His Preaching and Teaching Labours
Montville: Trinity Pulpit Press, 2018 p117
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“An exegete is like a diver bringing up pearls from the ocean bed; an expositor is like the jeweller who arrays them in orderly fashion and in proper relation to each other.”
N Howington
Expository Preaching Review and Expositor, 1959 p56
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“In ordinary Greek literature the kerux himself has a position of significance at the court. He is a very important man, to whom not only political but also religious significance is ascribed. He is a ‘sacral person’. In the New Testament such connotations are absent, for the herald is not the main thing, but his work: the announcement of God’s salvation in Jesus Christ.”
K Runia
What Is Preaching According To The New Testament? Tyndale Bulletin, 1978 p8
(For 10 years now, every Saturday, I have sent round a preaching related quote to hundreds of preachers around the world. These are mostly quotes that I have come across in my own reading, while some have been sent to me. You can find all of them at The Barnabas Files website where a new quote appears each week.)
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For 10 years now, every Saturday, I have sent round a preaching related quote to hundreds of preachers around the world. These are quotes that I have come across in my own reading, while some have been sent to me. You can find all of them at The Barnabas Files website where a new quote appears each week, but I will also post that quote here every Saturday morning. Here is yesterday’s offering.
“In the treatment of your topic, you will marshal verses which inform and support your assertions. Do not overload the sermon with too many supportive verses. Under the Old Covenant, two or three witnesses were enough to put a man to death. Under the New Covenant, two or three witnesses can get you excommunicated. Two or three witnesses are enough. Do not feel that you must load up your sermon with ten or twelve texts to make your case. Choose your front-line soldiers. Expound them thoroughly to carry the judgement of God’s noble-minded people.”
Pastoral Theology Vol 2: The Man of God. His Preaching and Teaching Labours
A N Martin
Montville: Trinity Pulpit Press, 2018 p330
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