Tag: Who Is Sufficient?

“Preaching is the chariot that carries Christ up and down the world.”

Richard Sibbes, in Beeke, Reformed Preaching, p. 146

“We would have less need for personal counseling if we provided more application in the pulpit.”

Beeke, Reformed Preaching, p. 92

“A minister’s life is the life of his ministry . . . In great measure, according to the purity and perfections of the instrument, will be the success. It is not great talents God blesses so much as great likeness to Jesus. A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of God.”

Robert Murray M’Cheyne, as quoted in Beeke, Reformed Preaching, p. 82

“Therefore, the glory of God and the needs of our listeners compel us to preach with sincerity and holy energy. This more than raising our voices and waving our arms.”

Beeke, Reformed Preaching, p. 79

“David Clarkson (1622-1686) says that God is present in public worship ‘more effectually, constantly, intimately’ than in private devotions.”

Beeke, Reformed Preaching, p. 75

“If a man teach uprightly and walk crookedly, more will fall down in the night of his life than be built in the day of his doctrine.”

John Owen, in Beeke, Reformed Preaching, p. 69

“Reformed preaching is declaring biblical truth to promote biblical spirituality as it was rediscovered in the Reformation of the sixteenth century.”

Beeke, Reformed Preaching, p. 58

“Self-centered preaching produces self-centered hearers.”

Beeke, Reformed Preaching, p. 34