“The sermon is to be sacrificed to the soul, the system of work to the purpose of work always. It strikes at the root of all clerical fastidiousness and the tyranny of order.”
Phillips Brooks, The Joy of Preaching, p. 191
The Worth of Souls
“There is a power which lies at the center of all success in preaching, and whose influence reaches out to the circumference, and is essential everywhere . . . Where it is largely present it is wonderful how many deficiencies count for nothing . . . Without this power preaching is almost sure to become either a struggle of ambition or burden of routine. With it preaching is an ever fresh delight. The power is the value of the human soul, felt by the preacher, and inspiring all his work.”
Phillips Brooks, The Joy of Preaching, p. 183
Real Forgiveness
Sermon Video Introduction: Everyone knows that the Christian faith revolves around the forgiveness of sins. But because there is a gospel logic involved in it that eludes every form of carnal ...
The Primacy of Truth
“To claim that men should believe what we teach them because we teach it to them, and not because they see it to be true, is to assume a place which God does not give us and men will not acknowledge for us.”
Phillips Brooks, The Joy of Preaching, p. 178
The Meaning of Joy
Sermon Video Introduction: When Paul comes to describe the fruit of the Spirit in Gal. 5:22, he uses the singular form of fruit, and then goes on to list love, joy, peace, and so on. So instead ...
The Prophecy of Micah [12]
Introduction: Sermon Video We have now come to the climax of Micah’s great prophetic word. This is the note he ends on, which is a note of consolation. God chastises His people, but He does ...
How to Fight
Sermon Video I ntroduction: I do not wish to speak of how to fight as though the subject were a matter of technique. That could be a legitimate way of understanding the title, but my purpose here ...
The Prophecy of Micah [11]
Sermon Video Introduction: As we come now to the last chapter of Micah, we are in the judgment section of the last cycle. As before, the judgment that is going to fall on Israel and Judah both ...
Good Order
“Truth and timeliness together make the full preacher . . . First, seek always truth first and timeliness second, never timeliness first and truth second.”
Phillips Brooks, The Joy of Preaching, p. 161
What is a Cult? What is a Sect? What is a Church?
Sermon Video Introduction: Whenever we are confronted with a new problem, our first instinct as Christians ought to be that of turning to the Scriptures. What does the Bible say about this? And ...