Evangelism & Preaching

by

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

When praying for healing, ask great things of God and expect great things from God. But let us seek for that healing that really matters, the healing of the heart, enabling us to trust God simply, face God honestly, and live triumphantly.

Arlo F. Newel

This Day's Verse

As in water face reflects face, So a man’s heart reveals the man.

Proverbs 27:19
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

“I have heard many great orators,” said Louis XIV to Bishop Jean Baptiste Massillon, “and have been highly pleased with them; but whenever I hear you, I go away displeased with myself.” This is the highest encomium that could be bestowed on a preacher.

Charles Simmons

Visit Our Website | Subscribe | Make A Donation | Contact Us

by

This Day’s Thought-Thursday

This Day's Thought

My grand point in preaching is to break the hard heart, and to heal the broken one.

John Newton

This Day's Verse

“For the pillars of the earth are the LORD’s, And He has set the world upon them.”

1 Samuel 2:8
The New King James Version

This Day's Reprise

All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

Leo Tolstoy

Visit Our Website | Subscribe | Make A Donation | Contact Us

by

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Though the Bible urges us on to perfection it gives no encouragement to suppose that perfection is achieved….A man who thinks he is righteous is not righteous…for the reason, primarily, that he is full of spiritual pride, the most deadly form that sin can take.

D. Elton Trueblood

This Day's Verse

A person’s wisdom yields patience; it is to one’s glory to overlook an offense.

Proverbs 19:11
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

We will have eternity to celebrate the victories, but only a few hours before sunset to win them.

Amy Carmichael

Visit Our Website | Subscribe | Make A Donation | Contact Us

by

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

Blessed is the pilgrim, who in every place, and at all times of this his banishment in the body, calling upon the holy name of Jesus, calleth to mind his native heavenly land, where his blessed Master, the King of saints and angels, waiteth to receive him.  Blessed is the pilgrim who seeketh not an abiding place unto himself in this world; but longeth to be dissolved, and be with Christ in heaven.

Thomas à Kempis

This Day's Verse

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control;

Galatians 5:22-23
The English Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

Too many clergymen have become keepers of an aquarium instead of fishers of men—and often they are just swiping each other’s fish.

Myron Augsburger

Visit Our Website | Subscribe | Make A Donation | Contact Us

by

This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

For the Christian, Jesus is the Way. All things are measured by his Way: by his healing grace, his call to forgiveness and purity of heart, nonviolence and a concern for justice; by his relinquishment of earthly power and dominance; affirmation of agape (friendship and self-giving Love) as a new basis for kinship, of change of heart as the requirement for righteousness, and of the transcendent power of suffering.

Madonna Kolbenschlag

This Day's Verse

The LORD is near to all who call upon Him, To all who call upon Him in truth.

Psalm 145:18
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

Sometime near a century ago the advice was given to young preachers: “When you go to the city to preach, take your best coat; when you go to the country, take your best sermon.”

Religious Telescope

Visit Our Website | Subscribe | Make A Donation | Contact Us

by

This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.

Augustine

This Day's Verse

How precious is thy steadfast love, O God! The children of men take refuge in the shadow of thy wings.

Psalm 36:7
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Smile

A Scottish woman said to her minister, “I love to hear you preach. You get so many things out of your text that aren’t really there.”

Watchman-Examiner

Visit Our Website | Subscribe | Make A Donation | Contact Us

by

This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

Every Christian occupies some kind of pulpit and preaches some kind of sermon every day.

The Methodist Story

This Day's Verse

Every word of God is pure; He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him.  Do not add to His words, Lest He rebuke you, and you be found a liar.

Proverbs 30:5-6
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

Theological preaching is deservedly unpopular if all it does is settle a lot of problems people never heard of, and asks a lot of questions nobody ever asks.

Robert J. McCracken

Visit Our Website | Subscribe | Make A Donation | Contact Us

by

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

We Christians look to the future even more than to the present; it is part of our new nature to do so.

Henry Liddon

This Day's Verse

And he said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”

Luke 10:2
The English Standard Version

This Day's Smile

They tell about a fifteen-year-old boy in an orphans’ home who had an incurable stutter.  One Sunday the minister was detained and the boy volunteered to say the prayer in his stead.  He did it perfectly, too, without a single stutter.  Later he explained, “I don’t stutter when I talk to God.  He loves me.”

Bennett Cerf 

Visit Our Website | Subscribe | Make A Donation | Contact Us

by

This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

When the spirit of prayer began to be lost, then forms of prayer were invented, and, I believe, the same observation will hold good as to preaching.

George Whitefield

This Day's Verse

For thus said the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, “In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.”

Isaiah 30:15
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

The best is perhaps what we understand the least.

C. S. Lewis

Visit Our Website | Subscribe | Make A Donation | Contact Us

by

This Day’s Thought-Wednesday

This Day's Thought

I believe the promises of God enough to venture an eternity on them.

Isaac Watts

This Day's Verse

“The good ground represents the heart of a man who listens to the message and understands it and goes out and brings thirty, sixty, or even a hundred others into the Kingdom.”

Matthew 13:23
The Living Bible

This Day's Smile

O Lord, reform the world—beginning with me.

Unknown

Visit Our Website | Subscribe | Make A Donation | Contact Us