Pastoral Resources

I try to do that in this book without preaching - to try to do as you just said that you really have to defend the First Amendment rights of everybody.

If we allow the consideration of heathen morality and heathen religion to absolve us from the duty of preaching the gospel we are really deposing Christ from His throne in our own souls.

It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.

But what is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?

Do you think it's possible to discuss politics without preaching?

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.

In my preaching the shafts are ever aimed at the brainwashed horde.

Religion can make it worse. Are you supposing that if people were encouraged to believe in a transcendent reality, and to be encouraged by grand rituals and music and preaching, to love their neighbors, then they would put jealousy and frustration aside?

I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.

Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.

Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God.

John the Baptist, who we are told was related by blood to Jesus, was preaching the impending judgement of God, urging repentance and moral reform, and baptizing in the Jordan River those who responded.

Do not suppose, dearest Sir, that I am so short-sighted as to destroy my life by English preaching, or any other preaching. St. Paul did much good by his preaching, but how much more by his writings.

Painless preaching is as good a term as any for what we do.