Quotes about Teaching

The Bible. Know it in your head. Stow it in your heart. Show it in your life. Sow it in the world.

Instead of telling them God has a wonderful plan for their life - tell them who God is.

All true histories contain instruction.

For even sheep do not vomit up their grass and show to the shepherds how much they have eaten; but when they have internally digested the pasture, they produce externally wool and milk. Do you also show not your theorems to the uninstructed, but show the acts which come from their digestion.

Preaching a series allows you to go into greater depth in the text, and spending several weeks on one theme allows the teaching to be absorbed more thoroughly.

I deal with more practical issues of the Bible.

Guys that preach verse-by-verse through books of the Bible - that is just cheating. It's cheating because that would be easy, first of all. That isn't how you grow people. No one in the Scripture modeled that.

I have never changed my message. I preach the Bible, and I preach it with authority.

Congregations shaped by the Scriptures generally have preachers who are shaped by the Scriptures.

Because we are continually growing in the Lord, preachers and lay people alike must be open to the Lord's correction.

My mother, with a Master's in English Literature, taught me to appreciate language and that words matter.

I get a daily master class in Jenifer Lewis, and that's been so special to me. If I haven't prepared for something, she'll ball up the script and throw it at me. She'll say, 'You're not ready for this! Go downstairs and work on it.'