“The approach is purely cosmetic. It sees imagination as skill in decorating the cake with no thought given to improving the recipe. Imagination in preaching is not a new technique to be learned but a radical new attitude and outlook to be cultivated” (Wiersbe, Preaching and Teaching With Imagination, p. 27).
Takeoffs and Landings Both
“Preachers seldom neglect to prepare some introduction to a sermon, but very often neglect the conclusion; and yet the latter is even more important than the former” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, p 277).
And There’s a Reason for That
“‘The purpose of preaching,’ wrote Halford Luccock, ‘is not to make people see reasons, but visions'” (Wiersbe, Preaching and Teaching With Imagination, p. 25)
Pervasive Intelligence
“Like sap in the plant or blood in the body, the vital current of thought must flow through the whole discourse, giving it animation, flexibility, strength” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, p. 275).
One Body, Many Members
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #144 “For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ. For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, …
Imitating the Message
“Biblical preaching means declaring God’s truth the way He declared it, and that means with imagination” (Wiersbe, Preaching and Teaching With Imagination, p. 9)
Preach to Move
“Preachers, especially the educated, have too often regarded instruction and conviction as the aim of their labors, when they are but means of leading men to the corresponding feeling, determination, and action” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, p. 263).
Shake It Up a Bit
“So many sermons follow the beaten track, in which we can soon foresee all that is coming, as to make it a weary task even for devout hearers to listen attentively. One feels inclined to utter a plaintive cry, ‘Worthy brother, excellent brother, if you could only manage to drive us sometimes over a different …
Beach Boys Glossolalia
“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11) The Basket Case Chronicles #143 “For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; to another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same …
So Quite Flaring Your Plumage
“Whatever savors of display is exceedingly objectionable in a preacher, and particularly at the outset” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, p. 255).