“A church can wither as surely under the ministry of soulless Bible exposition as it can where no Bible is given. 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. Then, and not till then, is it the prophetic word and the man himself a prophet.” PeopleMenGivenVoiceChallengesChurchAliveParticularHe ManMessagesProphetPreacherMinistryAlarmsPropheticSoulless Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer
“Let no preacher in a little church think that he has no audience for his message. An unseen audience of multitudes compass him about! Let no Christian who sins in the dark think that he is unobserved. He is compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses! Assuredly in Heaven they know what goes on on earth.” ThinkingKnowsLittlesEarthChristianHeavenChurchDarkSinAudienceGoes OnMessagesCloudsWitnessPreacherMultitudesUnseenCompass Book:Tears in Heaven Source: Tears in Heaven
“After I saw a couple of pictures put out by my fellow comedy-directors, which seemed to have abandoned the fun in favor of the message, I wrote Sullivan's Travels to satisfy an urge to tell them that they were getting a little too deep-dish, to leave the preaching to the preachers.” LittlesFunSawsComedyCoupleDirectorsMessagesFellowsFavorsUrgesAbandonedPreacherPreachingDishesToo Deep Author:Preston Sturges
“Jesus was a storyteller with amazing messages wrapped around them. What we want to do is get back to that. I'm not a preacher. I'm not the person on Sunday. I am the person that is trying to figure out life and wants to be pushed to be a better person. The first one that we're in production with right now is called Nouvelle Vie.” WantTryingFirstsPersonsJesusFiguresRight NowMessagesProductionsSundayGet BackPreacherStorytellerBetter PersonBeing A Better Person Author:Drew Waters
“Usually I'm able to prepare a message about two to three weeks in advance.I know some preachers don't like that. They want to be finishing it on Friday before they preach it on Sunday, but our worship team really likes me to get it done way in advance.” KnowsWayWantTwoDoneAbleThreeWeekTeamWorshipMessagesLikesSundayPreacherFridayFinishingGet It DoneFinishing It Author:Max Lucado
“I have always tried to have a message, not to be a preacher, but a message that shows it's better to be a good guy than a bad guy, and I try to make it clear that doing the right thing is more attractive than not.” TryingShowsGuyClearMessagesAttractiveRight ThingPreacherBad GuysGood GuyDoing The Right Thing Author:Stan Lee
“Too often preachers want to deal with people simply at the level of publicly accessible reason. We participate with them in their own epistemology. But this is not New Testament preaching. We have a message that is not from this world; it is from God. We don't know it by our own cleverness; we know it because God has revealed it.” PeopleKnowsWorldWantReasonLevelsDealsThis WorldMessagesPreacherPreachingTestamentNew TestamentClevernessEpistemology Author:Mark Dever
“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.” PeopleVoiceChallengesAliveParticularMessagesPreacherPreachingAlarms Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer
“The more faithful preachers are to the Word of God in their preaching, the more liable they are to the charge of hypocrisy. Why? Because the more faithful people are to the Word of God the higher the message is that they will preach. The higher the message, the further they will be from obeying themselves.” PeopleHigherMessagesFaithfulHypocrisyWord Of GodPreacherPreachingLiableObeyingHoliness Of God Book:The Holiness of God Source: The Holiness of God