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Principles of Preaching
It is not necessary for a preacher to express all his thoughts in one sermon. A preacher should have three principles: first, to make a good beginning, ...
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Bad Preaching
I know a minister whose shoe laces I am unworthy to unloose, whose preaching is often little better than a sacred miniature painting--I might almost say ...
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Preaching Is Undemocratic
Preaching is the most undemocratic of routines in a free society. Week in, week out, people come and listen for a half-hour at a time to someone like ...
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Let Me Preach with Enthusiasm
O God, let me preach with enthusiasm because of what Christ did, not because of what the crowds think ... because of the salvation we have, not the size ...
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Just Tell Who Jesus Is
My family and team have gone to over sixty countries declaring the glory of God. When I first went to the Muslim-, Hindu-, and Buddhist-majority nations, ...
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Loving and Preaching
To love to preach is one thing--to love those to whom we preach, quite another.
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Do They Hear You or God?
There's nothing quite as devastating as when someone says, "As I listen to you preach, God does not speak through you."
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What Happened to the Gospel?
Bonhoeffer studied for a year in New York City. He was uniformly disappointed with the preaching he heard there: "One may hear sermons in New York ...
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Getting Into Heaven
In the late 1800s, Charles Berry, an English preacher, became the pastor of the great Plymouth Church in Brooklyn. One day Berry described how earlier ...
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Slogan or Message?
We must be aware of trivializing the gospel, of presenting it in a form that compromises the radicality of its message. If someone is used to seeing or ...
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