The Certain Sound of the Trumpet Quotes

“Any exercise as important as preaching deserves careful and penetrating scrutiny, an endless search for an evaluative instrument, and a strategy for continuous improvement.”
― Samuel DeWitt Proctor, The Certain Sound of the Trumpet: Crafting a Sermon of Authority

“Great preaching can present Jesus to the modern mind, transposing him from a world of goats, camels, fig trees, and mustard seeds to a world of crack, teenage gun fights, child abuse, stealing in high places, and education without values, keeping alive his transforming and saving power generation after generation.”
― Samuel DeWitt Proctor, The Certain Sound of the Trumpet: Crafting a Sermon of Authority

“When we have all competed to become wealthy, the preacher reminds us that we have an obligation to feed the hungry and to care for the widows and orphans, that we are only stewards of God's wealth.”
― Samuel DeWitt Proctor, The Certain Sound of the Trumpet: Crafting a Sermon of Authority

“we are only stewards of God's wealth.”
― Samuel DeWitt Proctor, The Certain Sound of the Trumpet: Crafting a Sermon of Authority

“With these expectations before us, we are prepared to separate the sermon from all other platform performances and verbal expressions. It is a proclamation of the truth of God, through Jesus Christ, by a preacher endowed with spiritual discipline. The proclamation, informed by the Scriptures, relates to all of life.”
― Samuel DeWitt Proctor, The Certain Sound of the Trumpet: Crafting a Sermon of Authority

“Intellectual depth is revealed in more subtle ways than simply reminding the people of how bereft of learning they are.”
― Samuel DeWitt Proctor, The Certain Sound of the Trumpet: Crafting a Sermon of Authority

“Sermon building is a farce if the preacher has nothing to say.”
― Samuel D. Proctor, The Certain Sound of the Trumpet: Crafting a Sermon of Authority