Kindle Notes & Highlights
Keep your quotes from other authors short. Do not preach over the heads of your congregants. You are feeding sheep, not giraffes.
Preach with Continuity
Preach with Fervency
a sermon becomes a dry-as-dust lecture.
Passion is like the tip of a spear that gives the message a sharp point to penetrate hearts.
Preach with Sobriety
The prophets called this “the burden of the word of the Lord” (Zech. 9:1).
Nahum note
Theodore Beza said of John Calvin: “His every word weighed a pound.”14 Puritan Richard Baxter said, “I preached as never sure to preach again. I preached as a dying man to dying men.”
Preaching quo
Spurgeon, who said, “We cannot play at preaching. We preach for eternity.”
Preaching quote
You are an ambassador of the King, not His court jester,
Preach with Intensity
The rays of the sun are narrowed down as they pass through the lens of the magnifying glass, and the heat becomes greatly intensified, causing the paper to smolder and smoke.
Preach with Urgency
Your message requires action today, not tomorrow.
Like a lawyer addressing the jury, you must call for their verdict today. Press for a response.
Like a lawyer call for the verdict now
Preach with Variety
There should be peaks and valleys in the tone of your delivery and
Rotate your manners of expression and say the same thing in different ways.
Preach with Accuracy
Preach with Personality
Phillips Brooks defined “real preaching” as “divine truth through personality.”
Preaching quotes
Preach with Liberty
Preach with Sensitivity
concern for your listeners.
If you regularly tear them down with rebuke but rarely build them up with edification, you will alienate yourself from them.
clanging cymbal”
Preach with Familiarity
If you want them to look you in the eyes, then do so with them.
Always look eye
Preach with Visibility
Preach with Dignity
You are a royal spokesperson of Jesus Christ, representing Him before humankind. Your attire should be consistent with the sacred trust
Fess appreciate
you can make the best scrambled eggs, but if you serve them cold,
each one of them essentially believes the same truths.
some will know how to deliver the message more effectively than others.
A sermon is not complete until it has been applied. An exposition without application is like an airplane that never lands or a piece of mail that is never delivered.
Application and landing a plane
Where there is no application, there is no sermon—only a lecture.
You belong to the ancient world of the Bible, and you belong to the contemporary world in which you and your listeners live.
Put them into a fishing boat on the Sea of Galilee with Jesus and His disciples or into a cave with David as he hides from Saul.
With one hand, you reach back and lay hold of the early world of the Bible. With the other hand, you reach forward and lay hold of the listeners before you and the world in which they
Confront the Carnal
They must see that their greatest enemy lives within themselves.
There is only one instrument designed to perform such spiritual surgery. That is Scripture, which is “sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit . . . able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart” (Heb. 4:12).
Warn the Wayward
From the pulpit, you must “admonish” (noutheteō), which means to put something into the mind.
Urge the Undecided
To be effective, preaching must go beyond instruction to exhortation. To “exhort” (parakaleō) means to call someone to your side.
Exhort
An elder must be “able . . . to exhort in sound doctrine” (Titus 1:9).
Persuade the Unconvinced
The word translated “persuasion” (peithō) means to prevail upon someone to pursue a course of action.
Comfort the Downcast
