“One of the elements of powerful preaching is preaching as a man that has been liberated. Liberated from what? From the ensnaring effects of the fear of men” (Martin, What’s Wrong With Preaching Today? p. 17).
Deep Ethos
“Unless we would degrade preaching to a mere elocutionary art, we must never forget that the soil out of which powerful preaching grows is the preacher’s own life. This is what makes the art of preaching different from all other arts of communication” (Martin, What’s Wrong With Preaching Today? p. 5).
Exegete the Right Source
“The text, then, will not be tortured to teach a doctrine contrary to the general teachings of inspiration, and it will be something more than a motto for a series of observations drawn from a merely human source, the preacher’s own mind” (Shedd, Homiletics and Pastoral Theology, p. 160).
Now They Tell Us
“It is possible to find more meaning in a text, than it really contains” (Shedd, Homiletics and Pastoral Theology, p. 152).
And Not a Minute Longer
“The orator, of all men, should know when he is through, and should stop when he is through” (Shedd, Homiletics and Pastoral Theology, p. 137).
Get It Down
“Compose continuously. When the preacher has made all the preparation, general and particular, of which we have spoken, and his mind and heart are ready to work, he should proceed in the composition of a sermon without intermission” (Shedd, Homiletics and Pastoral Theology, p. 133).
Ragged and on Fire
“It is better to preach a ragged and less than neat sermon in the power of the Holy Spirit, than to preach a neat and polished sermon without His unction” (Martin, Preaching in the Holy Spirit, p. 60).
So Take It Straight
“The true and proper stimulant for the intellect is truth” (Shedd, Homiletics and Pastoral Theology, p. 129).
And Full of Something Else Instead
“The Holy Spirit is grieved when our sermons are not full of Christ” (Martin, Preaching in the Holy Spirit, p. 51).
Not Coldness
“The word translated ‘boldness,’ a noun sometimes used in verbal form, is the dominant word used to describe the quality of the preaching recorded throughout the book of Acts” (Martin, Preaching in the Holy Spirit, p. 23).