Bible Quote by John Piper

Too often preachers want to deal with people simply at the level of publicly accessible reason. We participate with them in their own epistemology.…

— Mark Dever

“And what is it that preachers do, to this very day? Do they interpret and expound the Scriptures? Yet if the Scripture they expound…

— Martin Luther

“As a preacher myself, let me be blunt here. Preaching itself can easily become just a subtle form of entertainment. When I stand at…

— Jim Cymbala

“Good preachers...are effective teachers, good thinkers, with rhetorical skills, a good voice, a good memory, and the ability to recognize when to stop. They…

— Robert Kolb

The preacher's task is to declare what God has said, explain the meaning, and establish the implications so that no one will mistake its…

— Alistair Begg

“As evangelicals who believe that God has revealed Himself in Scripture, we come to the text not to hear our own voice, but God's…

— Grant Lovejoy

A preacher must have some intelligence to charm the people by his florid style, by his exhilarating system of morality, by the repetition of…

— Jean de la Bruyere

“He is always careful to take account of the unity and harmony of Scripture teaching. His expositions are not therefore afflicted with the vice…

— John Calvin

“Second, be very careful to think about your audience’s premises. Don’t assume, for example, that everyone listening trusts the Bible. So when you make…

— Timothy Keller

“So many people open a Bible and they are being taught to listen for the voice of God-to try to hear what God is…

— John MacArthur

It is not his business to argue men into faith, for that cannot be done; but it is his business to demonstrate the intellectual…

— J. I. Packer

“Often when people try to say what the Bible is about, they let their own mindset ride roughshod over what actually lies on the…

— Robert Farrar Capon