Preaching

“The first thing not to do when preaching from the Old Testament Prophets is to preach about the prophet. Instead preach the message of the divinely inspired book that bears the prophet’s name.” - 9 Marks

“Make your delivery as personal as you can. The camera never blinks and exaggerates how you communicate nonverbally. You will connect better with your listeners by doing the things that make for effective one-on-one communication.” - BPNews

“While 75 percent of respondents said they ‘listen carefully,’ 17 percent acknowledged that they ‘get distracted’ while 10 percent reported that they ’fact check’ the sermon. Millennials were the generation with the highest percentage of respondents who said they fact-check, with 16 percent admitting that they do this” - CPost

“I have heard (and preached!) sermons that intend to be expositional, yet fall somewhat short. Below are a dozen pitfalls: five that don’t make the message of the passage the message of the sermon and thus abuse the text, five that fail to connect the text the congregation, and two that fail to recognise that preaching is ultimately God’s work.” - 9 Marks

“The highest privilege and greatest honor in pastoring is not standing in the church pulpit but praying by the hospital bed.” - Challies

“By inspiring some things hard to understand, God has unleashed in the world desperation which leads to supplication—the crying out to God for help.” - F&T

“…an analysis by the Pew Research Center—billed as the first of its kind—of 49,719 sermons delivered in April and May that were shared online by 6,431 churches. Pew described its research as ‘the most exhaustive attempt to date to catalogue and analyze American religious sermons.’” - Christianity Today

“Earnestness is the demeanor that corresponds to the weight of the subject matter of preaching. The opposite of earnest is not joyful but trivial, flippant, frivolous, chipper.” - John Piper