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 Meaning of Joy
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 ...
A Deadly Snare
“There is truth in the belief that much of the best thinking and preaching of the land is done in obscure parishes and by unfamous preachers . . . To set one’s heart on being popular is fatal to the preacher’s best growth. To escape from that desire one needs to know that the men who are in no sense popular favorites do much of the very best work of the ministry.”
Phillips Brooks, The Joy of Preaching, pp. 156-157
Which Can Be Disconcerting
“Often the horse knows the rider better than the rider knows the horse.”
Phillips Brooks, The Joy of Preaching, p. 155
If You Want Them to Trust You
“Trust the people to whom you preach more than most ministers do.”
Phillips Brooks, The Joy of Preaching, p. 154
The Word is for All
“However difficult it may be to do it, it is clearly recognized that men ought to preach so that the wisest and the simplest alike can understand and get the blessing.”
Phillips Brooks, The Joy of Preaching, p. 153