I believe it is better for me to be in need, and so I praise thee for my necessity while I ask thee to supply it. I glory in mine infirmity, even while I ask thee to overcome it. I triumph before thee in my affliction, and bless thee for it even while I ask thee to help me...
Keep it purposeful.Avoid preaching in the prayer. If we’ve prepared well, the sermon will do the preaching. Allow the prayer to be that purposeful moment when we take our congregation to God Himself, asking for His aid in proclaiming and hearing the Word. ...
The Friday service consists of a sermon (khuṭbah), which partly consists of preaching in the local language and partly of recitation of certain formulas in Arabic. In the sermon, the preacher usually recites one or several verses of the Qurʾān and builds his address on it, which ...
Preaching is to give life; it may kill. The preacher holds the keys; he may lock as well as unlock. Preaching is God's great institution for the planting and maturing of spiritual life. When properly executed, its benefits are untold; when wrongly executed, no evil can exceed its ...
The preaching which is most successful is that ministry which has much of prayer in it. Perhaps one might go so far as to say that it is the only kind that is successful. God can mightily use the preacher who prays. He is God's chosen messenger for good, whom the Holy Spirit ...
And, this is such a simple, straight-forward way, too. I would like to think about the Scripture passage I am going to be preaching on this upcoming Sunday. I have never particularly wanted to consider it before. However, with this being the Scripture section I chose for this week’s ...
Preaching never edifies a prayerless soul. Christ knows nothing of prayerless Christians. The gospel cannot be projected by a prayerless preacher. Gifts, talents, education, eloquence, God's call, cannot abate the demand of prayer, but only intensify the necessity for the preacher to pray and...
If the preacher has faithfully just said that sex is reserved for marriage, and marriage can only be between one man and one woman, Ozanne would see that as“a lifelong prison sentence with no hope of love, intimacy, or natural desire”for any same-sex-attracted people, therefore an attemp...
plans. The disaster and ruin of such a ministry cannot be computed by earthly arithmetic. What the preacher is in prayer to God, for himself, for his people, so is his power for real good to men, so is his true fruitfulness, his true fidelity to God, to man, for time, for ...
In our communal enforced solitude we may have just the right hermitage for facing into the truth of ourselves and going deeper into our prayer and silence. In the Winter issue ofHoly Ground,which I wrote before the virus erupted, “Deep personal and communal changes are not something we roll...