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Sometimes when people feel strongly about something, that is all they preach about. That is wrong. There needs to be a balance. We need to use common sense even in our spiritual life. In
— Joyce Meyer
prophetic preaching can take place only where the preacher is deeply embedded in the YHWH narrative.
— Walter Brueggemann
Prophetic preaching is dangerous work, not only because it has a subversive edge but because it requires an epistemological break with the assumed world of dominant imagination. This epistemological break makes us aware of our assumptions we have not recognized or reflected upon.
— Walter Brueggemann
The conspicuous absence of the lynching tree in American theological discourse and preaching is profoundly revealing, especially since the crucifixion was clearly a first-century lynching.
— James H. Cone
When we preach on hell, we might at least do it with tears in our eyes.
— James Garlow
From the furnace of manifest presence, born of unashamed adoration and unapologetic preaching, comes an army of worshippers unafraid in their witness, determined to see others discover what they have found in the LORD.
— James MacDonald
Yet many are living that very life, deluded by weak preaching and deceived by biblical illiteracy into thinking grace coddles the unrepentant.
— James MacDonald
We don't worship so that preaching will be more impactful for us; we preach so that worship will be more impactful for God.
— James MacDonald
An overemphasis upon imminence in preaching has banished transcendence and tended to a theology of God being technically present as an observer but effectively absent as a participant. When
— James MacDonald
All the preaching in the world cannot make a man see the truth so long as his eyes are blinded.
— Charles Spurgeon
Speaking as a minister it is my strong feeling that no man has a right to preach to a crowd that he has not prayed for.
— AW Tozer
No man ever yet thought whether he was preaching well without weakening his sermon.
— Phillips Brooks