Powerful Quotes on Preaching

The gospel cannot be preached and heard enough, for it cannot be grasped well enough.… Moreover, our greatest task is to keep you faithful to this article and to bequeath this treasure to you when we die.

The sermon is no place for a virtuoso performance; it is a place for believers to explore together their common experience before God. The stories I tell from the pulpit are not just “my” stories but “our” stories. Which are God’s stories, too. The stool of my sermon rests evenly on those three legs. If any one of them is missing (or too long or too short). the whole thing will wobble and fall.