From J.D. Greear’s book Gospel: Recovering the Power that Made Christianity Revolutionary
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Nonbelievers need to hear the gospel to believe it and be saved. Believers need to be reminded of the
One of the best things you can do as a preacher is to create an annual plan for your preaching. There are tons of advantages to planning ahead:
* greater intentionality
* greater diversity
* more
John Flavel, in The Fountain of Life, reflects on the excellency of Christ and its implications for preachers:
Certainly that is the highest commendation of a minister, to be an able minister of
Spurgeon on how our sermons are measured:
Horses are not to be judged by their bells or their trappings, but by limb and bone and blood; and sermons, when criticized by judicious hearers,
Radical words from two authors – and I think they’re on to something.
Darrell Johnson writes:
I want now to do what I can to lift a horrible burden off of preachers. It