I don’t get to preach very often in environments that are recorded, in the last five months only twice. So this is a place to bring that resource together in one place.
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Aug. 31, 2025. Mark 7:31-37 A Model for Personal Ministry Community Crossing (ARP) July 27, 2025 Mark Community Crossing (ARP) June 29, 2025 Mark Community Crossing (ARP) May 25, 2025 Mark 2:13-22 He has the Power to Change Community Crossing (ARP) May 18, 2025 Mark 2:1-12 Jesus Forgives and Heals Community Crossing (ARP) Mar. 9, 2025 Psalm 51 What Does Repentance Look Pioneer Church (SBC) Feb. 9, 2025 Matt. 4:1-11 Beginning the New Year Jubilee Baptist Church Jan. 5, 2025 Matt. 4:1-4 What do We Live By? Pioneer Church (SBC) July 7, 2024 2 Sam. 23 Things to Remember Community Crossing (ARP) June 30, 2024 2 Sam. 21 Covenants are Costly Community Crossing (ARP) Feb 17, 2024 Acts 1:1-16 Why Missions Exists Pioneer Church (SBC) Feb. 4, 2024 Luke 7:36-50 How to Become a Great Lover Crossing Community (ARP) Nov. 2023 Matt. 13:44-46 How Valuable is the Kingdom Pioneer Church (SBC) Rock Hill, SC August 2023 Psalm 67 Let the Nations Be Glad Pioneer Church (SBC) January 2014. Prov. 24:11 Sanctity of Life Sunday Trinity Church (EFCA) |
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Preaching Quotes
- “Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.” – John Wesley
- “Many a preacher misses the mark because, though he knows books, he does not know men.” – James Stalker
- “I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.” – Richard Baxter
- “A popular evangelist reaches your emotions. A true prophet reaches your conscience.” – Leonard Ravenhill
- “The backslider likes the preaching that wouldn’t hit the side of a house, while the real disciple is delighted when the truth brings him to his knees.” – Billy Sunday
- “There’s a way to preach the Bible unbiblically . . . You can use the Bible as the springboard for all kinds of ideas, can’t you? Look around in here and find something that fits your fancy and then launch a rocket off it. People say, ‘That was amazing, wasn’t it? Remarkable what he got out of that.’ Well of course it is because he put it in before he got it out.” – Alistair Begg
- “The sermon which does not lead to Christ, or of which Jesus Christ is not the top and the bottom, is a sort of sermon that will make the devils in hell laugh, but make the angels of God weep.” – Charles Spurgeon
- “A minister, without boldness, is like a smooth file, a knife without an edge, a sentinel that is afraid to let off his gun. If men will be bold in sin, ministers must be bold to reprove.” – William Gurnall
- “Only once did God choose a completely sinless preacher.” – Alexander Whyte
- “People have an idea that the preacher is an actor on a stage and they are the critics, blaming or praising him. What they don’t know is that they are the actors on the stage; he (the preacher) is merely the prompter standing in the wings, reminding them of their lost lines.” – Søren Kierkegaard
- “What is the chief end of preaching? I like to think it is this: It is to give men and women a sense of God and His presence.” – Martin Lloyd-Jones
- “Preaching is teaching with a tear in the eye.” – Jack Hyles
- “The preaching of Christ is the whip that flogs the devil. The preaching of Christ is the thunderbolt, the sound of which makes all hell shake.” – Charles Spurgeon
- “God has ordained that our preaching become deeper and more winsome as we are broken, humbled, and made low and desperately dependent on grace by the trials of our lives.” – John Piper
- “The task of the preacher is to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” – Vance Havner
- “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.” – AW Tozer
“Becoming a great preacher, like becoming a great artist, requires a life commitment.
– Calvin Miller“It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.”
– George Whitefield- “The preacher must be a serious man; he must never give the impression that preaching is something light or superficial or trivial.” – Martin Lloyd-Jones
- “A sermon is not made with an eye upon the sermon, but with both eyes upon the people and all the heart upon God.” – John Owen
- “I cannot preach on hell unless I preach with tears.” – Dwight L. Moody
- “Lord, help me to preach today as if it were the last sermon I would ever preach.” – Jack Hyles
“A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach and he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able to bite and fight.”
– Martin Luther- A preacher should have the mind of a scholar, the heart of a child, and the hide of a rhinoceros. His “problem is how to toughen his hide without hardening his heart.” – Curtis C. Thomas
“The life-giving preacher is a man of God, whose heart is ever athirst for God, whose soul is ever following hard after God, whose eye is single to God, and in whom by the power of God’s Spirit the flesh and the world have been crucified, and his ministry is like the generous flood of a life-giving river.”
– EM Bounds*
*All 25 quotes above quotes compiled by Brandon Kelly at his website.
Quotes on the importance of our words.
“Be careful with your words. Once they are said, they can be only forgiven, not forgotten.” -Unknown
“The secret of being boring is to say everything.” -Voltaire
“One kind word can change someone’s entire day.” -Unknown
“Be careful with your words. Once they are said, they can be only forgiven, not forgotten.” -Unknown
“The power of the spoken word is one of life’s greatest mysteries. All you will ever be or accomplish hinges on how you choose to govern what comes out of your mouth.” –Cindy Trimm
“Words. Borne on the ever swelling current of hatred, like flowers opening in the current, petals peeling back, then falling apart.” —Anne Rice, The Vampire Lesat
“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.”
― Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but what is necessary for edification as fits the need of the moment, that it may give grace to the hearer.” –The Apostle Paul in Ephesians 3:29
“The spoken word has a power to move men and women
Marty Schoenleber 2023
to immediate action.
Perhaps that is one of the reasons the Son of God, when He took on flesh, wrote no books,
but spoke daily of the glories of the Kingdom of God.”
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