Sublime

Remember also that it is almost criminal at a sermon’s most convicting moment to break eye contact, bury your head in a manuscript, and flatly read obscure words.

As the great British preacher Charles Spurgeon once said, “Let your sermons be full of Christ, from beginning to end crammed full of the gospel.”5 That’s what we’re after: sermons crammed full of Christ.

“God-breathed,”

Charles Spurgeon convict me: “If Jesus is precious to you, you will not be able to keep your good news to yourself. . . . It cannot be that there is a high appreciation of Jesus and a totally silent tongue about him.”

A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic . . . or else he would be the Devil of Hell.

Jesus won’t commend us for the size of our ministry, but on whether we were faithful with the tasks we were entrusted with.

Just because something is less exciting, doesn’t mean it’s any less God.

The life of God within the soul creates an infinite difference between the person who has it and the one who does not;

Melvin Maxwell, Bill Hybels, John Wooden, Oswald Sanders, Jesus Christ,