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Axiom #3: When told how to apply sermons specifically, most people over-congratulate themselves on how biblically they already live while thinking of others who could really use the sermon.
A sermon expands to fill the time allotted to complete. it
The sermon begins in the parking lot.
If I ever wrote a book on preaching, it would contain three words: Preach the Word. Get rid of all the other stuff that gets you sidetracked; preach the Word.
Great sermons lead the people to praise the preacher. Good preaching leads the people to praise the Savior.
Saying is one thing, doing another. We must consider the sermon and the preacher distinctly and apart.
Let us never forget that, to be profited, that is, to be spiritually improved in knowledge, faith, holiness, joy and love, is the end of hearing sermons, and not merely to have our taste gratified by genius, eloquence and oratory.
Preaching is fire in the pulpit that melts the ice in the pew.
We cannot play at preaching. We preach for eternity.
There is a very real danger of our putting our faith in our sermon rather than in the Spirit. Our faith should not be in the sermon, it should be in the Holy Spirit Himself.
that your hearers shall either yield to your Lord or be without excuse, and that this shall be the immediate result of the sermon now in hand.
A sermon in shoes is often more eloquent than a sermon on paper.
The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself.
I feel like it's better to see a sermon lived than it is to hear one preached.
Preach to yourselves the sermons which you study, before you preach them to others.
When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.
Oh God, if You want me to preach, I will do it.
A prepared heart is much better than a prepared sermon. A prepared heart will make a prepared sermon.
There is, perhaps, no greater hardship at present inflicted on mankind in civilised and free countries than the necessity of listening to sermons.
The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today
Preach not calmly and quietly as though you were asleep, but preach with fire and pathos and passion.
If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
Sermonettes make Christianettes.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way.
Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better.
The 'success' of the sermon is utterly dependent on the God who breaks through and 'grasps' us, or we cannot be 'grasped.
Preaching is the concerted engagement of one's faculties of body, mind, and spirit.
...moved by his own sermon.
Cheerful holiness is the most forcible of sermons, but the Lord must give it you.
I think nobody wants to hear a sermon. Well, some people do, but maybe not through music or not with me. No one wants to hear me give a speech that way.
The sermon is now the true poppy of literature.
Preaching on Sunday mornings is such a simple thing, and by complicating it, I think we all do ourselves and the audience a disservice. It is very simple. Here is the model: Make people feel like they need an answer to a question.
Preaching means to awaken the real inclination to serve God.
Being good to people is always better than giving any sermon. Being kind & caring to others speaks much greater than any words can ever do.
When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.
Preaching reveals God in action here and now
for ME.
Your life is your sermon ... Are you a good translation?
To get the job done preaching must be committed to two goals: first it should be passionate and second, fascinating.
In the spectrum of God's mysteries, preaching is a sacrament: Because of its sacramental reality some people have never again been the same.
May I beg you carefully to judge every preacher, not by his gifts, not by his elocutionary powers, not by his status in society, not by the respectability of his congregation, not by the prettiness of his church, but by this - does he preach the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation?43
Our great object of glorifying God is to be mainly achieved by the winning of souls Do not close a single sermon without addressing the ungodly.
One decent sermon cannot influence a disoriented person in the same way your consistent presence in her life can.
This is the ministry and its work
not to drill hearts and minds and consciences into right forms of thought and mental postures, but to guide to the living God who speaks.
Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.
I tell my congregation at times, "You don't have to feel conviction for every sermon. Some of you are actually obedient and faithful in this area." Not perfectly, of course, but truly and sincerely.
You've got to preach short sermons to catch sinners.
To be effective the preacher's message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God's present voice to a particular people.
A sermon is not to tell you what you are, but what you ought to be, and a novel should tell you not what you are to get, but what you'd like to get.
A burlesque word is often a powerful sermon.
Preaching is the expression of moral sentiments applied to the duties of life.
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
It is imperative that preachers of today learn how to declare the spritual law of God; for, until we learn how to wound consciences, we shall have no wounds to bind with Gospel bandages.
I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop
Every sermon must contain a certain shot of heresy.
The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not "What a lovely sermon!" but "I will do something."
I've been known to preach.Preach-- Kevin Hart
Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire.
Preach with authority. The authority for us is the Word of God. Preach with simplicity ... Preach with urgency ... heaven and hell are at stake. Preach for a decision.
The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of rules and regulations - it is a picture of the life we will live when the Holy Spirit is having His unhindered way with us.
The preaching that this world needs most is the sermons in shoes that are walking with Jesus Christ.
Resort to sermons, but to prayers most: Praying's the end of preaching.
I preach best from a point of penance.
The preacher must be a serious man; he must never give the impression that preaching is something light or superficial or trivial.
Preachers, however eloquent they are, are rarely heard as readily as pastors. After all, shepherds are sheep lovers, and the sheep are dependent upon their shepherds, who love them even before they listen.
People are more likely to listen to sermons you preach if they are also sermons you practice.
I don't like to hear cut and dried sermons. No - when I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
Every man is a priest, even involuntarily; his conduct is an unspoken sermon, which is forever preaching to others.
Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of your argument. A sermon without a text is an argument without a proof.
The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.
Every discouraging sermon is a wicked sermon ... There could hardly be a more un-Christian way of living than to go about in such a way as to depress and to discourage other people.
If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than preaches that sermon.
When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life.
The aim of preaching is not the elucidation of a subject, but the transformation of a person ... Our task is ... the sharing of intense faith and experience.
The half-baked sermon causes spiritual indigestion
The true preacher can be known by this, that he deals out to the people his life,
life passed through the fire of thought.
My face warms under the scrutiny of silence, and I'm almost relieved when he launches into his eulogy. To my dismay, it turns out to be a sermon.
Live the message, don't just read about it and preach.
No man preaches his sermon well to others if he does not first preach it to his own heart.
You don't preach to hear yourself, you preach to heal the church.
Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame, if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.
The gospel is NOT preached if Christ is not preached.
Preach the Gospels everyday & only if you have to...use words.
Preach the Gospels everyday & only if you have to ... use words.
Everything in the service needs to preach - architecture, lighting, songs, prayers, fellowship, the smell - it all preaches. All five senses must be engaged to experience God.
Great preaching always depends upon great themes.
I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.
Spare neither labor in the study, prayer in the closet, nor zeal in the pulpit. If men do not judge their souls to be worth a thought, compel them to see that their minister is of a vex], different opinion.
A single sermon is not likely to effect much change.
Preach the word, be urgent in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, and exhort, be unfailing in patience and in teaching.
We have all heard the story of the man who preached so well and lived so badly, that when he was in the pulpit everybody said he ought never to come out again, and when he was out of it they all declared he never ought to enter it again.
Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or friend above the Word of God.
Whenever you preach, be sure that you lift the Saviour high and lay the sinner low.
A preacher should have the skill to teach the unlearned simply roundly, and plainly; for teaching is of more importance than exhorting.
There is nothing, surely, which exhorts us more than this Sermon on the Mount to be what we are meant to be, and to live as we are meant to live; to be like Christ by being a complete contrast to everyone who does not belong to Christ.
Even the preachers get preached by life
Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.
When it comes to adding authority to the sermon, the Bible is the most powerful way to comment on what the Bible has to say.
You are a preacher! Maybe not with your mouth all the time like me, but as a believer in Christ, your life is a living sermon.
The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day.
Kid's don't care how many sermons you preach to them. The only sermon they'll hear is how you live your life in front of them.