Our Scripture verse on preaching is 1 Corinthians 2:6-8 which reads: "Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory."
Our quote on preaching today is from Colin S. Smith. He said, "Authentic gospel preaching always engages people with eternal issues."
In this podcast, we are using as our texts, the following three books: "Lectures to My Students" by Charles H. Spurgeon; "The Preacher and his Preaching" by Alfred P. Gibbs; and "Biblical Preaching" by Haddon W. Robinson. And, I want to remind you to take advantage of our special offer. If you enjoy this podcast, please feel free to purchase any one of these books for your personal library from the resources page on our website -- ProclaimPodcast.com.
Our first topic is titled "The Minister's Self-Watch, Part 8" from "Lectures to My Students" by Charles H. Spurgeon. He writes:
[John Bunyan said,] "...Though there be a promise of shining as stars to those that turn many to righteousness, this is but on the supposition that they be first turned to it. Their own sincerity in the faith is the condition of their glory simply considered, though their great ministerial labors may be a condition of the promise of their greater glory. Many men have warned others that they come not to that place of torment, which yet they hasted to themselves; many a preacher is now in hell, that hath an hundred times called upon his hearers to use the utmost care and diligence to escape it...."
Our second topic is titled "The Qualifications of the Preacher, Part 8" from "The Preacher and his Preaching" by Alfred P. Gibbs.
This section is titled: THE PREACHER MUST BE A STUDENT OF THE BIBLE (PART 1)
A preacher must be a man of the Book. He must know it by reading it.
It is essential that a preacher should be well acquainted with the book from which he preaches. In order to teach mathematics, one must know mathematics. What would you think of a "music teacher" who did not know music; or of an "English teacher" who did not know English? He, who is called to preach the Bible, is also called to study the Bible, for there cannot be one without the other; the first necessitates the last. Like David, each preacher should be able to testify, "Oh, how love I Thy law!"
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Our third topic is titled "The Definition of Expository Preaching, Part 6" from "Biblical Preaching" by Haddon W. Robinson. He writes:
The Concept Is Applied to the Hearers (Part 1)
Not only does the Holy Spirit apply his truth to the personality and experience of the preacher, but according to our definition of expository preaching, he then applies that truth through the preacher to the hearers. Expositors think in three areas. First, as exegetes we struggle with the meanings of the biblical writer. Then, as people of God we wrestle with how God wants to change us. Finally, as preachers we ponder what God wants to say to the congregation through us.
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Our Scripture verse on preaching is 1 Corinthians 2:4-5 which reads: "And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified."
Our quote on preaching today is from Søren Kierkegaard. He said, "People have an idea that the preacher is an actor on a stage and they are the critics, blaming or praising him. What they don't know is that they are the actors on the stage; he (the preacher) is merely the prompter standing in the wings, reminding them of their lost lines."
In this podcast, we are using as our texts, the following three books: "Lectures to My Students" by Charles H. Spurgeon; "The Preacher and his Preaching" by Alfred P. Gibbs; and "Biblical Preaching" by Haddon W. Robinson. And, I want to remind you to take advantage of our special offer. If you enjoy this podcast, please feel free to purchase any one of these books for your personal library from the resources page on our website -- ProclaimPodcast.com.
Our first topic is titled "The Minister's Self-Watch, Part 7" from "Lectures to My Students" by Charles H. Spurgeon. He writes:
A formal preacher is mischievous while he preserves his outward equilibrium, but as he is without the preserving balance of godliness, sooner or later he is almost, sure to make a trip in his moral character, and what a position is he in then! How is God blasphemed, and the gospel abused!
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Our second topic is titled "The Qualifications of the Preacher, Part 7" from "The Preacher and his Preaching" by Alfred P. Gibbs.
This section is titled: THE PREACHER MUST LOVE SOULS (PART 3)
3. The need for a right estimate of the soul’s value.
We must ever see men as souls having bodies, rather than bodies having souls. Christ’s words must grip our hearts. "What shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?" This should impress us, as nothing else, with the tremendous value of a soul. Someone has said, "There is nothing great in this world but man; and there is nothing great about man but his soul." We must estimate the value of the soul by the price Christ paid to secure its redemption, even His most precious blood. We must therefore view man and estimate his worth, not by the size of his bank account, his position in the world, his family connections, his education, his clothes, his color, race, or tongue; but we must view and value him as one for whom Christ died.
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Our third topic is titled "The Definition of Expository Preaching, Part 5" from "Biblical Preaching" by Haddon W. Robinson. He writes:
The Concept Is Applied to the Expositor
Our definition of expository preaching goes on to say that the truth must be applied to the personality and experience of the preacher. This places God’s dealing with the preacher at the center of the process. As much as we might wish it otherwise, we cannot be separated from the message. Who has not heard some devout brother or sister pray in anticipation of a sermon, "Hide our pastor behind the cross so that we may see not him but Jesus only"? We commend the spirit of such a prayer. Men and women must get past the preacher to the Savior. (Or perhaps the Savior must get past the preacher to the people!)
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Our Scripture verse on preaching is 1 Corinthians 2:1-2 which reads: "And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified."
Our quote on preaching today is from C.S. Lewis. He said, "A man who first tried to guess 'what the public wants,' and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it, would be a pretty mixture of fool and knave."
In this podcast, we are using as our texts, the following three books: "Lectures to My Students" by Charles H. Spurgeon; "The Preacher and his Preaching" by Alfred P. Gibbs; and "Biblical Preaching" by Haddon W. Robinson.
Our first topic is titled "The Minister's Self-Watch, Part 6" from "Lectures to My Students" by Charles H. Spurgeon. He writes:
In many instances of young men put to a trade which they cannot endure, they have run away to sea sooner than follow an irksome business; but where shall that man flee who is apprenticed for life to this holy calling, and yet is a total stranger to the power of godliness? How can he daily bid men come to Christ, while he himself is a stranger to his dying love? O sirs, surely this must be perpetual slavery. Such a man must hate the sight of a pulpit as much as a galley-slave hates the oar.
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Our second topic is titled "The Qualifications of the Preacher, Part 6" from "The Preacher and his Preaching" by Alfred P. Gibbs.
This section is titled: THE PREACHER MUST LOVE SOULS (PART 2)
2. Consider Christ's passion for souls. The earthly life of our Lord Jesus Christ, as "Jehovah's Servant," is again the preacher's example of what it means to love souls. His gracious, solicitous, tender, and loving compassion is everywhere evident in the four Gospels, which contain the brief record of His ministry. It is instructive to mark the many times when it is stated that, "He had compassion." His heart went out in love to the lost and guilty sinners He had come to "seek and to save."
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Our third topic is titled "The Definition of Expository Preaching, Part 4" from "Biblical Preaching" by Haddon W. Robinson. He writes:
The Concept Comes from the Text
This emphasis on ideas as the substance of expository preaching does not in any way deny the importance of vocabulary or grammar. The definition goes on to explain that in the expository sermon the idea is derived from and transmitted through a historical, grammatical, and literary study of a passage in its context. This deals first with how expositors come to their message and, second, with how they communicate it. Both involve the examination of grammar, history, and literary forms. In their study expositors search for the objective meaning of a passage through their understanding of the language, backgrounds, and setting of the text. Then in the pulpit they present enough of their study to the congregation so that their listeners may check the interpretation for themselves.
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Our Scripture verse on preaching is 1 Corinthians 2:13 which reads: "Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual."
Our quote on preaching today is from Herman Melville. He said, "The pulpit is ever this earth’s foremost part; all the rest comes in its rear. The pulpit leads the world… The world’s a ship on its passage out, and not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow."
In this podcast, we are using as our texts, the following three books: "Lectures to My Students" by Charles H. Spurgeon; "The Preacher and his Preaching" by Alfred P. Gibbs; and "Biblical Preaching" by Haddon W. Robinson. And, I want to remind you to take advantage of our special offer. If you enjoy this podcast, please feel free to purchase any one of these books for your personal library from the resources page on our website -- ProclaimPodcast.com.
Our first topic is titled "The Minister's Self-Watch, Part 5" from "Lectures to My Students" by Charles H. Spurgeon. He writes:
Let each man here whisper to his own inmost soul, "What a dreadful thing it will be for me if I should be ignorant of the power of the truth which I am preparing to proclaim!" Unconverted ministry involves the most unnatural relationships. A graceless pastor is a blind man elected to a professorship of optics, philosophizing upon light and vision, discoursing upon and distinguishing to others the nice shades and delicate blendings of the prismatic colors, while he himself is absolutely in the dark! He is a dumb man elevated to the chair of music; a deaf man fluent upon symphonies and harmonies! He is a mole professing to educate eaglets; a limpet elected to preside over angels.
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Our second topic is titled "The Qualifications of the Preacher, Part 5" from "The Preacher and his Preaching" by Alfred P. Gibbs.
This section is titled: THE PREACHER MUST LOVE SOULS (PART 1)
1. It is possible to love to preach, without loving those to whom we preach. A lawyer may develop great ability in his profession without necessarily loving his clients. A physician may enjoy great success without loving his patients. A businessman can rise to great heights of prosperity without loving his customers. But a preacher can never be a real worker for Christ without a deep passion for the lost souls to whom he preaches the Gospel of God’s grace.
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Our third topic is titled "The Definition of Expository Preaching, Part 3" from "Biblical Preaching" by Haddon W. Robinson. He writes:
The Expositor Communicates a Concept: The definition of expository preaching also emphasizes that an expositor communicates a concept. Some conservative preachers have been led astray by their doctrine of inspiration and by a poor understanding of how language works. Orthodox theologians insist that the Holy Spirit protects the individual words of the original text. Words are the stuff from which ideas are made, they argue, and unless the words are inspired, the ideas cannot be guarded from error.
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Our Scripture verse on preaching is 2 Timothy 3:16 which reads: "All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness."
Our quote on preaching today is from Martin Luther. He said, "To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching."
In this podcast, we are using as our texts, the following three books: "Lectures to My Students" by Charles H. Spurgeon; "The Preacher and his Preaching" by Alfred P. Gibbs; and "Biblical Preaching" by Haddon W. Robinson. And, I want to remind you to take advantage of our special offer. If you enjoy this podcast, please feel free to purchase any one of these books for your personal library from the resources page on our website -- ProclaimPodcast.com.
Our first topic is titled "The Minister's Self-Watch, Part 4" from "Lectures to My Students" by Charles H. Spurgeon. He writes:
That a teacher of the gospel should first be a partaker of it is a simple truth, but at the same time a rule of the most weighty importance. We are not among those who accept the apostolical succession of young men simply because they assume it; if their college experience has been rather vivacious than spiritual, if their honors have been connected rather with athletic exercises than with labors for Christ, we demand evidence of another kind than they are able to present to us.
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Our second topic is titled "The Qualifications of the Preacher, Part 4" from "The Preacher and his Preaching" by Alfred P. Gibbs.
This section is titled: THE PREACHER MUST LOVE THE LORD JESUS
1. The love of Christ must be the constraining motive of all the preacher's service.
Paul wrote, “For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if One died for all, then were all dead: and that He died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto Him which died for them and rose again.” To preach from a sense of duty, while necessary, is not enough. Only as the love of Christ is the impelling motive shall one’s preaching be worth anything.
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Our third topic is titled "The Definition of Expository Preaching, Part 1" from "Biblical Preaching" by Haddon W. Robinson. He writes:
Attempting a definition becomes sticky business because what we define we sometimes destroy. The small boy who dissected a frog to find out what made it jump learned something about the parts in the process, but he killed the frog. Preaching is a living interaction involving God, the preacher, and the congregation, and no definition can pretend to capture that dynamic. But for the sake of clarity we must attempt a working definition anyway.
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Our Scripture verse on preaching is Exodus 4:10-12 which reads: "And Moses said unto the Lord, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue. And the Lord said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the Lord? Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say."
Our quote on preaching today is from Billy Sunday. He said, "Whenever a day comes when I can stand and preach God's Word without an agony of anxiety lest the people will not accept Christ; whenever a day comes when I can see men and women coming down the aisles without joy in my heart, I'll quit preaching."
In this podcast, we are using as our texts, the following three books: "Lectures to My Students" by Charles H. Spurgeon; "The Preacher and his Preaching" by Alfred P. Gibbs; and "Biblical Preaching" by Haddon W. Robinson.
Our first topic is titled "The Minister's Self-Watch, Part 3" from "Lectures to My Students" by Charles H. Spurgeon. He writes:
For the herald of the gospel to be spiritually out of order in his own proper person is, both to himself and to his work, a most serious calamity; and yet, my brethren, how easily is such an evil produced, and with what watchfulness must it be guarded against! As I was traveling one day by train from Perth to Edinburgh, we suddenly came to a dead stop, because a very small screw in one of the engines had been broken, and when we started again we were obliged to crawl along with one piston-rod at work instead of two. Only a small screw was gone, if that had been right, the train would have rushed along its iron road, but the absence of that insignificant piece of iron disarranged the whole. A train is said to have been stopped on one of the United States' railways by flies in the grease-boxes of the carriage wheels. The analogy is perfect; a man in all other respects fitted to be useful, may by some small defect be exceedingly hindered, or even rendered utterly useless. Such a result is all the more grievous, because it is associated with the gospel, which in the highest sense is adapted to effect the grandest results.
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Our second topic is titled "The Qualifications of the Preacher, Part 3" from "The Preacher and his Preaching" by Alfred P. Gibbs.
This section is titled: THE PREACHER MUST BE REGENERATED, Part 2
Christ likened the Jewish leaders of His day to "blind leaders of the blind." We read in Psalm 50:16, "To the wicked, God saith, What hast thou to do to declare My statutes, or that thou shouldest take My covenant in thy mouth?" Peter refers to the false prophets of his day as "wells without water." These appear inviting to the weary and parched traveler, but provide nothing with which to slake his thirst. God declares that, "The natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned." From conversations with returned Christian soldiers, it appears that saved and evangelistic chaplains were the exception, rather than the rule.
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Our third topic is titled "The Case for Preaching" from "Biblical Preaching" by Haddon W. Robinson. He writes:
Those in the pulpit face the pressing temptation to deliver some message other than that of the Scriptures -- a political system (either right-wing or left-wing), a theory of economics, a new religious philosophy, old religious slogans, or a trend in psychology. Ministers can proclaim anything in a stained-glass voice at 11:30 on Sunday morning following the singing of hymns. Yet when they fail to preach the Scriptures, they abandon their authority. No longer do they confront their hearers with a word from God. That is why most modern preaching evokes little more than a wide yawn. God is not in it.
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Our Scripture verse on preaching is Exodus 4:10-12 which reads: "And Moses said unto the Lord, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since thou hast spoken unto thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue. And the Lord said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the Lord? Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say."
Our quote on preaching today is from Richard Baxter. He said, "I preached as though I wasn't sure I would preach again, and as a dying man to dying men."
Our first topic is titled "The Minister's Self-Watch, Part 2" from "Lectures to My Students" by Charles H. Spurgeon. He writes:
We are, in a certain sense, our own tools, and therefore must keep ourselves in order. If I want to preach the gospel, I can only use my own voice; therefore I must train my vocal powers. I can only think with my own brains, and feel with my own heart, and therefore I must educate my intellectual and emotional faculties. I can only weep and agonize for souls in my own renewed nature, therefore must I watchfully maintain the tenderness which was in Christ Jesus.
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Our second topic is titled "The Qualifications of the Preacher, Part 2" from "The Preacher and his Preaching" by Alfred P. Gibbs. He writes:
To many, the statement that a preacher should be born from above may seem self-evident. The fact remains, however, that there are literally hundreds of preachers who have never experienced the regenerating power of the Spirit of God. They know nothing of what it means to be saved by the grace of God through personal faith in Christ.
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Our third topic is titled "The Case for Preaching" from "Biblical Preaching" by Haddon W. Robinson. He writes:
In spite of the "bad-mouthing" of preaching and preachers, no one who takes the Bible seriously should count preaching out. To the New Testament writers, preaching stood as the event through which God works. Peter, for example, reminded his readers that they had "been born anew, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God." How had this word come to affect their lives? "That word," Peter explained, "is the good news which was preached to you." Through preaching God had redeemed them....
Thank you for listening to PROCLAIM! -- the podcast that teaches every Bible-believing Christian how to preach the Gospel by any means necessary in many different settings, including using the internet and the new "podcast pulpit". If you are a Christian, you should be preaching the Gospel and the Word of God in some way, shape, form, or fashion because Jesus Christ said, "Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel." In the New Testament, the word "preach" simply means "to herald or proclaim" the good news of the Gospel, and the purpose of this podcast is to show you how you can get started doing it, or help you do it better for God’s glory and for the salvation of lost souls.
Our Scripture verse on preaching is Mark 16:15 which reads: "And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature."
Our quote on preaching today is from John Wesley. He said, "Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God; such alone will shake the gates of hell."
In this podcast, we are using as our texts, the following three books: "Lectures to My Students" by Charles H. Spurgeon; "The Preacher and his Preaching" by Alfred P. Gibbs; and "Biblical Preaching" by Haddon W. Robinson. And, I want to remind you to take advantage of our special offer.
Our first topic is titled "The Minister’s Self-Watch, Part 1" from "Lectures to My Students" by Charles H. Spurgeon.
Our second topic is titled "The Qualifications of the Preacher, Part 1" from "The Preacher and his Preaching" by Alfred P. Gibbs.
Our third topic is titled "The Devaluation of Preaching" from "Biblical Preaching" by Haddon W. Robinson.