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    Shepherd Book
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    1 Peter 1:8-9, Mark 11:22-24, Galatians 2:20, Romans 10:17, 2 Corinthians 5:7, James 2:17, Hebrews 11:1
    Shepherd Book: “River, you don’t . . . fix the Bible. River: It’s broken. It doesn’t make sense. Shepherd Book: It’s not about . . . making sense. It’s about believing in something. And letting that b...

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    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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    The sermon has been reduced to parenthetical church remarks about newspaper events.

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    Barbara Brown Taylor
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    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 ...

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    Timothy Keller
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    A sermon that just informs the mind can give people things to do after they go home, but a sermon that moves the heart from loving career or acclaim or one’s own independence to loving God and his Son...

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    Billy Graham
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    We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.

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    John Donne
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    All the articles of our religion, all the canons of our church, all the injunctions of our princes, all the homilies of our fathers, all the body of divinity, is in these three chapters, in this one S...

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    Timothy Keller
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    Resist ending your sermon with “live like this,” and rather end with some form of “You can’t live like this. Oh, but there’s one who did! And through faith with him you can begin to live like this too...

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    Oscar A. Romero
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    Hebrews 12:11, Galatians 6:1, 2 Timothy 4:2, Ephesians 5:11, 1 Peter 4:16, John 15:18-19, 2 Timothy 3:12
    The church must suffer for speaking the truth, for pointing out sin, for uprooting sin. No one wants to have a sore spot touched, and therefore a society with so many sores twitches when someone has t...

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    John Calvin
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    Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults.

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    John Wesley
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    Give me 100 preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God; such alone will shake the gates of hell.

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    Martin Luther
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    To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching.

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    John of the Cross
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    It must be pointed out to the preacher, if he is to cause his people profit and not to embarrass himself with vain joy and presumption, that preaching is a spiritual exercise rather than a vocal one. ...

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    Bernard of Clairvaux
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    I preached myself, the scholars came and praised me. I preached Christ, the sinners came and thanked me.

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    Oscar A. Romero
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    A church that doesn't provoke any crisis, a gospel that doesn't unsettle, a word of God that doesn't get under anyone's skin, a word of God that doesn't touch the real sin of the s...

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    Paul David Tripp
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    The minute you hear a sermon on materialism, you're glad somebody else is there to hear it.

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    Thomas Watson
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    [The Lord’s Supper] is a visible sermon.

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    James H. Aughey
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    The church is not a select circle of the immaculate, but a home where the outcast may come in. It is not a palace with gate attendants and challenging sentinels along the entrance-ways holding off at ...

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    John R. W. Stott
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    Matthew 5:null
    The Sermon on the Mount is probably the best-known part of the teaching of Jesus, though arguably it is the least understood, and certainly it is the least obeyed. It is the nearest thing to a manifes...

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    Billy Graham
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    Preach with authority. The authority for us is the Word of God. Preach with simplicity . . . Preach with urgency . . . heaven and hell are at stake. Preach for a decision.

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    John Calvin
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    Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not to be doubted, is a church of God.

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    Henry Drummond
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    The words which all of us shall one Day hear sound not of theology but of life, not of churches and saints, but of the hungry and the poor, not of creeds and doctrines, but of shelter and clothing, no...

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    Michael Ramsey
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    Before Christians can say things about what the church ought to be, their first need is to say what the Church is, here and now amid its own failures and the questionings of the bewildered. Looking at...

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    Ian Pitt-Watson
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    At the heart of it, preaching is the telling and retelling of Christ's story and our stories from creation to parousia. It is the remembering of the stories with a special kind of remembrance of w...

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    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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    There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be better Christians if we were more alone, waiting upon God, and gathering through meditation on His ...

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    Martin Luther
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    Preach [and live] as if Jesus was crucified yesterday, rose from the dead today, and is returning tomorrow.

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    Thomas Goodwin
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    1 Corinthians 2:1-5, Isaiah 55:10-11, Nehemiah 8:, Jeremiah 23:
    I came to this resolved principle, that I would preach wholly and altogether sound and wholesome words, without affectation of wit and vanity of eloquence. . . . I . . . have continued in that purpose...

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    John Calvin
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    The church is the gathering of God's children, where they can be helped and fed like babies and then guided by her motherly care, grow up to manhood in maturity of faith.

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    Clarence Bauman
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    The Sermon on the Mount is the most important and most controversial biblical text.

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    Richard Lischer
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    Never by any possibility must the minister's speech become a rival to his subject; that were to dishonor Christ, and not to glorify him.”

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    G. Campbell Morgan
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    No one statement wrested from its context is a sufficient warrant for actions that plainly controvert other commands. How excellent a thing it would be if the whole Church of Christ had learned that n...
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