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Tag: Who Is Sufficient?

Learn from Them, Don’t Lean on Them

Posted on Friday, May 20, 2011Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“Too much consultation of commentaries is apt to have a serious effect on the preacher’s resourcefulness, initiative, and originality” (Macartney, Preaching Without Notes, p. 112).

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Spadework

Posted on Wednesday, May 18, 2011Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“There is no worth-while subject to which the preacher’s mind will not kindle if he thinks enough upon it and about it” (Macartney, Preaching Without Notes, p. 110).

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Which Can Explain Quite a Bit

Posted on Tuesday, May 17, 2011Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“The preacher’s whole life, his whole experience is, in a way, a preparation for the sermon, even though it may be an unconscious one” (Macartney, Preaching Without Notes, p. 108).

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Because We Are Becoming Someone, Not Cramming for a Test

Posted on Wednesday, April 20, 2011Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“So one can get spiritual, mental, and moral help from a good book, although he may not remember anything in the book a short time after he has read it” (Macartney, Preaching Without Notes, p. 85).

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Grazing in Good Metaphor

Posted on Monday, April 18, 2011Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“Poetry is also good, for it stimulates the imagination, a faculty sadly neglected by the majority of preachers . . . the preacher ought never to part company with the poets. The objective is not to quote poetry in sermons — there is altogether too much of this — but to find worth-while sermon ideas, …

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Gathering Comes First

Posted on Friday, April 15, 2011Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“But this much certainly is true — wide reading in any worth-while field stimulates the mind and gives the reader something of use to him when he comes to prepare his sermon” (Macartney, Preaching Without Notes, p. 76).

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Imagine

Posted on Thursday, April 14, 2011Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“Napoleon said, ‘Men of imagination rule the world.’ The preacher of imagination is the prince of the pulpit” (Macartney, Peaching Without Notes, p. 75)

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Witchery of Words

Posted on Tuesday, April 12, 2011Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“Some of the greatest preachers have been metaphorical preachers . . . They understood, or had an unconscious instint for, the witchery of words” (Macartney, Preaching Without Notes, p. 59).

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What Illustrations Illustrate

Posted on Tuesday, April 5, 2011Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“The purpose of illustration is not merely to make the truth clear, but to heighten its nobility and glory” (Macartney, Preaching Without Notes, p. 32).

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So Preach the Blood

Posted on Friday, April 1, 2011Tuesday, June 25, 2013 by Douglas Wilson

“Evangelical preaching is the answer for all our church problems. It is the solvent of all heresies; and the drier and stonier the soil, the more solemn is the duty and responsibility of the preacher to sow the seed of the gospel” (Macartney, Preaching Without Notes, p. 27).

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