I've been spending much time reading and thinking about preaching. I found a couple of quotes from the man who is considered by many to be the "Prince Of Preaching," Charles Haddon Spurgeon.
TO THE PREACHER: "If some men were sentenced to hear their own sermons, it would be a righteous judgment on them; but they would soon cry out with Cain, "My punishment is greater than I can bear." (Ouch!)
TO THE HEARER: "Surely if men's hearts were right, short sermons would be enough. A very brief invitation might suffice if the heart were right, but since hearts are wrong God bids his servants enlarge, expand, and expound." (Preach it, Charlie!)
TO ALL: “The kind of sermon which is likely to break the hearer’s heart is that which first has broken the preacher’s heart, and the sermon which is likely to reach the heart of the hearer is the one which has come straight from the heart of the preacher.”
"...he being dead yet speaketh." Hebrews 11:4b
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