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Tag: Who Is Sufficient?

The Pulpit Artisan

Posted on Friday, January 18, 2013Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“Now in respect of skill, preaching is an art; and while art cannot create the requisite powers of mind or body, nor supply their place if really absent, it can develop and improve them, and aid in using them to the best advantage” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery, p. 25).

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Basic Capabilities

Posted on Thursday, January 17, 2013Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“The preacher needs the capacity for clear thinking, with strong feelings, and a vigorous imagination; also capacity for expression, and the power of forcible utterance” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery of Sermons, p. 23).

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Clothed in New Power

Posted on Tuesday, January 15, 2013Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“A preacher . . . shall hold on to the old truths, and labor to clothe them with new interest and power” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery of Sermons, p. 22).

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Not for Triflers

Posted on Monday, January 14, 2013Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“Eloquence is a serious thing . . . The speaker who is to deserve this high name, must have moral earnestness” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery of Sermons, p. 21).

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Because Something Must Be Done

Posted on Friday, January 11, 2013Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“Eloquence is so speaking as not merely to convince the judgment, kindle the imagination, and move the feelings, but to give a powerful impulse to the will” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery of Sermon, p. 20).

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A Rare Thing

Posted on Friday, December 21, 2012Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“A venerable and eminently useful minister once remarked, as he rose from the couch on which he had been resting, ‘Well, I must get ready to preach tonight. But I can’t preach — I never did preach — O, I never heard anybody preach'” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery of Sermons, p. 19).

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Both as Cause and Effect

Posted on Thursday, December 20, 2012Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“There has been no great religious movement, no restoration of Scripture truth, and reanimation of genuine piety, without new power in preaching, both as cause and as effect” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery of Sermons, p. 19).

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Power in Person

Posted on Wednesday, December 19, 2012Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“When a man is apt in teaching . . . there is a power to move men, to influence character, life, destiny, such as no printed page can ever possess” (Broadus, Preparation and Delivery of Sermons, p. 18)

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An Essential Balance

Posted on Tuesday, December 18, 2012Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“True preaching, then, always involves a balance between the indicative and the imperative” (Carrick, The Imperative of Preaching, p. 145).

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Well, Of Course

Posted on Monday, December 17, 2012Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“A minor point of the text may on occasion legitimately be a major emphasis of the sermon” (Gaffin, as quoted in Carrick, The Imperative of Preaching, p. 127).

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