Preaching Quote by D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

“I noted a second time appreciation for the author’s making room for intuition in the sermon process. Most of us give lip service to…

— Eugene L. Lowry

Preaching is truth through personality.

— Phillips Brooks

“We learn a wisdom kind of outreach, an evangelism or testimony as those who are human beings wrestling with it all. It is as…

— Zack Eswine

Preaching is the pastor's main work, and preaching is heart work, not just mental work.

— John Piper

“We have talked about the manner and mode of preaching, but contextualization also has much to do with the content. A sermon could be…

— Timothy Keller

You know, the one thing that expository preaching does that is apart from the congregation is it sanctifies the pastor.

— John MacArthur

“If preachers would speak only to men's fancies or understandings, and not meddle too smartly with their hearts, and lives, and carnal interests, the…

— George Virtue

The process has now run full circle: Preaching originates in personal counseling; preaching is personal counseling on a group basis; personal counseling originates in…

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Every discouraging sermon is a wicked sermon... There could hardly be a more un-Christian way of living than to go about in such a…

— William Barclay

“Preachers are heralds, who in representing their King proclaim a message with such clarity and integrity that those who hear will hopefully be transformed…

— Julius J. Kim

“Topical preaching, polemical preaching, historical preaching, and other forms of sermonic output have, one supposes, their rightful and opportune uses. But expository preaching—the prayerful…

— E.M. Bounds