Evangelism & Preaching

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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

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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

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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

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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 

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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

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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

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This Day’s Thought-Friday

This Day's Thought

Take sin seriously but take grace just as seriously.

Unknown

This Day's Verse

Dear friend, you are being faithful to God when you care for the traveling teachers who pass through, even though they are strangers to you.

3 John 5
The New Living Translation

This Day's Smile

Be humble, that you may not be humbled.

The Talmud

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

If you neglect your love to your neighbor, in vain you profess your love to God; for by your love to God, the love to your neighbor is begotten, and by the love to your neighbor, your love to God is nourished.

Francis Quarles

This Day's Verse

You shall give to him freely, and your heart shall not be grudging when you give to him; because for this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake.

Deuteronomy 15:10
The Revised Standard Version

This Day's Reprise

One day a lady criticized D. L. Moody for his methods of evangelism in attempting to win people to the Lord.  Moody’s reply was “I agree with you.  I don’t like the way I do it either.  Tell me, how do you do it?”  The lady replied, “I don’t do it.”  Moody retorted, “Then I like my way of doing it better than your way of not doing it.”

D. L. Moody

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This Day’s Thought-Tuesday

This Day's Thought

We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in number, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown.  But we have forgotten God!  Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God who made us.

Abraham Lincoln

This Day's Verse

Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses.

1 Timothy 6:12
The New International Version

This Day's Reprise

The sermon of your life in tough times ministers to people more powerfully than the most eloquent speaker.

Bill Bright

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This Day’s Thought-Monday

This Day's Thought

The happy life is to rejoice in God and for God.

Augustine

This Day's Verse

By your patience possess your souls.

Luke 21:19
The New King James Version

This Day's Smile

Sometimes you change people’s lives just by saying “good morning.”  I always say to myself, “I’ll never see this person again on the elevator, on the stairwell, in the grocery store.  This is the only chance, the two of us.”

Courtney B. Vance

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