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We cannot make believers. Believers make themselves by voluntarily coming to faith, one at a time.

Beware, O earth, the prophet who claims to know the time but never wears a watch.

The lips know only shallow tunes

Teach me the wilderness simplicity.
Help me to point to you, honestly and joyously,
as the threshold of all that really matters.

Great worship and great sermons contain a wonderful impending, a sense of "watch out, here it comes.

The best of sermons have never been a belch of information or piety.

With love that knew no fear, the Singer caught his torment, wrapped it all in song and gave it back to him as peace.

Bless your critics for their honesty. They do not criticize you to be a blessing to you, but the end product may be the same.

A single sermon is not likely to effect much change.

Donald Coggan's wisdom: "When true preaching takes place, the main actor is not the preacher, nor the congregation, but the Holy Spirit."15

Never lose the awe and wonder of having a personal God get personally involved in your life.

Comtemporary pulpits feel that to bring up dying is just not as relevant as telling people how to live, marry, succeed, relate, or become a winner.

Death is a confirmation of the believer's creed. For the skeptic it is discovery, immense and late.

But we have arrived at a glistening, smug day when nobody much sins, and those that do are prone to call it something else.

A passion to obey Christ is born out of our relationship with him. The more we love him, the more we want him to be a part of our affairs.

One of the great things silence does, it gives us a new concept of God.

Love is substance; Lust, illusion. Only in the surge of passion do the two mingle in confusion.

The third question, "What do they know about God?" has for its answer, "Pretty much nothing.

Once people know what the Bible says, their next questions are: So what? How to? Where do I start?

Reputation is not a treatise you write on your own behavior. Other people write it, and other people keep it.

Jesus always quickens artistic and literary imagination.

If anybody is left behind in a congregation of a thousand, the preacher has not preached well.

Tripping is embarrassing, but I have learned that where we stumble is the place we dig for gold - where we trip is where the treasure lies.

Define your times. Treasure your calling. Pray without ceasing. The terrors of the age are less than the grandeur of the Christ within you.

It is not such a fiercesome thing to lead once you see your leadership as part of God's overall plan for His world.

Application is what gets the Sermon off the Mount, and down in the valley where the toilers live out their days.

Becoming a great preacher, like becoming a great artist, requires a life commitment.

CHRIST'S LIFE ILLUSTRATES PLAINLY THAT THE CROWN OF VICTORY IS FORGED FROM THE GOLD OF OBEDIENCE.

In a religion where logic alone rules, there is no power.

Imagination must constantly run on a new track or it becomes lifeless. A living imagination is essential to prayer.

Anytime our sermons become confessional, they become more powerful.

To get the job done preaching must be committed to two goals: first it should be passionate and second, fascinating.

The world is poor because her fortune is buried in the sky and all her treasure maps are of the earth.

Audience analysis is also the most formidable work of the local pastor.

When we sin, we do not infuriate God, our Lover. We only hurt Him. We grieve Him!

Those who fervently love God are intoxicated by His warmth and live out their addiction like moths drawn to a flame.

When it comes to adding authority to the sermon, the Bible is the most powerful way to comment on what the Bible has to say.