“A text gives definiteness to the message. Limitation creates power. The fact that we are only taking that paragraph, verse, statement, perhaps phrase, gives this limitation. In preaching there is a tendency to generalisation and discursiveness. That is checked when a sermon is really true to its text” (G. Campbell Morgan, Preaching, p. 62).
Provided the Man is Not on a JumboTron
“Read a book, and we have the truth, perhaps, but in preaching you have the truth plus the man” (G. Campbell Morgan, Preaching, p. 57).
Reading the Story Lived
INTRODUCTION: This psalm gives us a glimpse of David’s early years, and of the faithfulness and trust he displayed in hard circumstances. But he knew what God was like, and he knew how the world worked. That being the case, he could wait patiently, trusting. THE TEXT: To the chief Musician, Maschil, A Psalm of …
And Sometimes With a Spanking
“That is our business as preachers. ‘Oh, but the preacher must catch the spirit of the age.’ God forgive him if he does. Our business is never to catch, but by eternal truth to correct the spirit of the age” (G. Campbell Morgan, Preaching, p. 31).
The Perpetual Irrelevance of Liberalism
“Here is a man who for some reason refuses the authority of his Bible, but says he will stand by Christ. What Christ?” (G. Campbell Morgan, Preaching, p. 25).
Otherwise There Is No Point
“The preacher should never address a crowd without remembering that his ultimate citadel is the citadel of the human will. He may travel along the line of the emotions, but he is after the will. He may approach along the line of the intellect, but he is after the will” (G. Campbell Morgan, Preaching, pp. …
Preaching at the Intersection
“The supreme work of the Christian minister is the work of preaching . . . . Whenever we preach, we stand between those two things, between human need and Divine grace. We are the messengers of that grace to that need” (G. Campbell Morgan, Preaching, pp. 12, 14).
When Crushed Bones Rejoice
INTRODUCTION:If forgiveness of sin is one of the glories of the new covenant, and it is (Heb. 8: 8-12; cf. Heb. 10: 17), then this psalm is one of the glories of the entire Bible. In this psalm, we learn the greatness of forgiveness, and in the course of learning this, we learn the true …
No Kidding . . .
“There is a relation between what predominates in our preaching and what we deem to be of greatest importance” (Gordon, Why Johnny Can’t Preach, 91).
T. David Gordon Says Mean Things
“Our seminary curricula are largely identical to what they were around the First World War, but the entering seminarian is a profoundly different person than was the seminarian of the early twentieth century. Then, the individual was well-read in poetry, and had studied nearly a decade of classical language (Latin, Greek, or both), learning by …