Isaiah 55: “My word that comes from my mouth will not return to me empty."
"You may think it to be your special calling to feed souls, but remember that your Master broke loaves and fishes to hungry bodies."
"A preacher will best preach salvation who has felt his own need of it."
"The genuine work of God needs no such planning and scheming; it is altogether spontaneous"
“If I cannot serve God one way, I will another. I will never leave off this blessed service.”
Because your church really does still need Jesus.
"Preaching is no hap-hazard business."
"Calvinism can impact everyday life and ordinary experience."
"Those doctrines which are not vital to the soul’s salvation, nor even essential to practical Christianity, are not to be considered upon every occasion of worship."
A sermon comes with far greater power when it is plainly the very word of God—not a lecture about the Scripture.
"Better far give the people masses of unprepared truth in the rough, like pieces of meat from a butcher’s block."
"If you permit one sin or false doctrine in a church knowingly and wittingly, none can tell the extent to which that evil may ultimately go"
