Monday Musings

Monday Musings: We Must Throw All Of Our Strength Into Preaching The Cross

“We must throw all our strength of judgment, memory, imagination, and eloquence into the delivery of the gospel; and not give to the preaching of the cross our random thoughts while wayside topics engross our deeper meditations.” –Charles Spurgeon: Lectures To  My Students

Monday Musings

You are not what you want.  You are who you are.  And that’s defined by the Word of God. It might be that God frees your appetite from whatever it’s drawn toward, but usually he instead enables you to fight it.  This might go on for forty days, for forty years, for an entire lifetime.  That’s all right.  There must be room then in our churches for a genuine bearing of one another’s burdens when it comes to the appetites.  Pretending the appetites are instantly nullified by conversion is a rejection of what God has told us–that we are still in the war zone.

–Russell Moore, Tempted and Tried

Monday Musings

Although we feel always joy in the declaration of God’s Word, yet we have known what it is to totter on the pulpit steps, under a sense that the chief of sinners should scarcely be allowed to preach to others.  Ah! beloved, I do not think he will be very successful as a minister who …

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Monday Musings

A few quotes from John Broadus for your Monday: “In every age of Christianity, since John the Baptist drew crowds into the desert, there has been no great religious movement, no restoration of Scripture truth, and reanimation of genuine piety, without new power in preaching, both as cause and as effect.” “Brethren, we must preach …

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Monday Musings

Here are a few quotes from W. A. Criswell to get your week off to a good start. “To lift Him up, to preach His name, and to invite souls to love Him and to follow Him is the highest, heavenliest privilege of human life.” “The word we preach from our pulpits ought to be …

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Monday Musings

In, Miracles, C.S. Lewis rejects the notion that scientific progress and discovery has nullified the belief in miracles. The idea that progress of science has somehow altered this question is closely bound up with the idea that people ‘in olden times’ believe in them [miracles] ‘because they didn’t know they laws of nature.’  Thus, you …

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Monday Musings

We should certainly welcome the fact that the silicon chip will transcend human brain-power, as the machine has transcended human muscle-power.  Much less welcome will be the probable reduction of human contact as the new electronic network renders personal relationships ever less necessary.  In such a dehumanized society the fellowship of the local church will …

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Monday Musings

I must confess at this point that I belong to the old reactionary tendency which regards the man who cannot preach in an interesting and informative manner as simply not called to the preaching ministry.  IF a man mounts a pulpit and cannot set his people’s heart on fire for the Bible, then he had …

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Monday Musings: Special Sermons for Special Days?

As Mother’s Day approaches, many pastors may wrestle with how to handle this holiday and or other holidays in their preaching calendar. Martyn Lloyd-Jones has some helpful advice: I would lay it down as a rule that there are special occasions which should always be observed.  At this point I have the temerity to express …

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Monday Musings

The office of the Christian ministry, rightly understood, is the most honourable, and most important, that any man in the whole world can ever sustain; and it will be one of the wonders and employments of eternity to consider the reasons why the wisdom and goodness of God assigned this office to imperfect and guilty …

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