Adapting Quote by Ambrose Bierce

“congregation, exhorting, encouraging,”

— Catherine Richmond

“But what if differences are made by remembering where we’d be without God and then ministering to others out of that knowledge? What if…

— Zack Eswine

Congregational life wherein each member has his opportunity to contribute to the life of the whole body, those gifts with which the Spirit endows…

— Lesslie Newbigin

“For the Congregation this new movement involves the danger of learning to think that the Services are done for them; and that their bodily…

— Lewis Carroll

“So it is that much homiletical advice tends to function in reverse—that is, it works reasonably well in evaluating a sermon already formed, but…

— Eugene L. Lowry

“While many congregations are less than vibrant, my experience has shown that where the Word is taught, the Spirit of the Lord is present.”

— Tim LaHaye

On Sundays I give the sermons like my dad used to give. I utilize it as a revolutionary tool, as a thinking tool, as…

— Wyclef Jean

“the basic form of this every-member gospel ministry is the same: • Organic. It happens spontaneously, outside of the church’s organized programs (even though…

— Timothy Keller

“A sermonic idea is a homiletical bind; a sermon is a narrative plot!”

— Eugene L. Lowry

“Pastors and Bible teachers go about their work in communal settings, where they listen to as well as deliver sermons, hear as well as…

— Peter J. Leithart

“every church can treat each discipleship class and each worship service as an opportunity for continual rehearsal of what the words, stories, symbols, rituals,…

— Sarah Arthur

“Preaching has very largely become a profession. Instead of real Christian sermons we are given secondhand expositions of psychology. The preachers say they that…

— D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones