Sublime

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.

Les Stobbe, Max Lucado, Charlie Wetzel, Les Parrott, Bob Buford,

There are really only two answers to the basic problem of weak, meaningless religion. A believer could adapt and concede to the reality of anemic Christianity; many Christians follow this approach. They construct their churches to be user-friendly in their worship, shallow in their preaching, and casual in their view of Christian commitment. They

The intellectual underpinnings of Bonhoeffer’s convictions on life in a Christian faith community can be traced to his early works Sanctorum Communio and Act and Being, which undergirded his interpretation of the church as a primary form of God’s self-revelation.

We must make sure that those of us working in a Para-church organisation are part of a local church, have a testimony of good character within that church, have served passionately in that church and have been acknowledged by the leadership of that church.

Remember that the reduced forms of main points must promote unity—the very heart of sound sermon preparation. As the magnet clauses grow more distant from the formal statement of the anchor clause, it is easy for a preacher to lose track of the central focus of the sermon.

The best use of your life is to serve God out of your shape.