Category: The Church

“‘That [we might] be complete’ (v. 17) We cannot lead others into spiritual maturity if we are still babes!”

Olford, Anointed Expository Preaching, p. 27

“If a man is truly called of God to be a preacher, then he is committed to declare ‘the whole counsel of God’ (Acts 20:27)”

Olford, Anointed Expository Preaching, p. 19

“‘For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men? For it I still pleased men, I would not be a bondservant of Christ’ (v. 10). In the light of these solemn words that Paul boldly asserts, the matter of fearless preaching becomes a ‘must’ to the authentic preacher”

Olford, Anointed Expository Preaching, p. 15

“Preaching is essential incarnation. If we would be followers of the Prince of Preachers, then all our preaching should be a ‘fleshing out’ of the pattern that Jesus left for us.”

Olford, Anointed Expository Preaching, p. 11

“In the strictest sense of the term, authentic preaching is expository preaching.”

Olford, Anointed Expository Preaching, p. 4

“Preaching has fallen on evil days because the sermon is regarded as just another form of human speech, rather than a special genre. The preacher is just another Christian without any special authority; the pulpit (whether within the church or on those frontiers where the church addresses the world) is just another platform or lectern—sometimes (even worse) it is a private stage. And when preachers believe this way, they lack the courage to speak with authority and to bless.”

James Daane, in Olford, Anointed Expository Preaching, p. 3

“We need men with warm hearts, wet eyes, clear heads, and tongues aflame.”

Adrian Rogers, in the Foreword to Anointed Expository Preaching