Zitat des Tages über Predigt / Sermon:
I contend that it's impossible to read the Sermon on the Mount and not come out against capital punishment.
It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and those four corners. You had to get out and do something.
Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God.
We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.
A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened.
You get up and you preach a sermon and people walk away thinking what a great guy - and that's a failure as a pastor. Our job is to proclaim Christ.
I get one hour, really 25 minutes in a sermon on a weekend, to combat all the hours of the week that people are told you are what you have through billboards, commercials, and sitcoms, and so forth.
No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
My father was a no-nonsense, dedicated, and focused minister, and there was usually a sermon he needed to prepare for or a Scripture he needed to study, and that always came first.
But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.
Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any damn body's sermon on how to behave.
I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach.
The sight of a drunkard is a better sermon against that vice than the best that was ever preached on that subject.
Modern-day cinema takes the form of a sermon. You don't get to think, you only get to receive information.
A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials.
When it comes to sermon writing, generally there are two problems. Some preachers love the research stage but hate the writing, and they start writing too late. Others don't like doing research, so they move way too fast to the writing part.
I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.
The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
I think quite a bit of organized religion has become big business. Jesus Christ never sold the word of God. He never gave a sermon and then said, 'For $8.99, you can buy the CD.'
It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.
The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.
No politician has ever yet been able to rule his country, nor has any country ever yet been able to face the world, upon the principles of the Sermon on the Mount.
A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.
We shall never understand the ethical system taught by Jesus unless we realize that he was a Jew, not only by birth, but that he lived and taught as a Jew; the Sermon on the Mount was addressed to his distracted fellow nationals.
TO preach a sermon or edit a newspaper were the two things in life which I always felt I could do with credit to myself and benefit to the world, if I only had the chance.
In a jazz atmosphere, the audience members were so quiet and respectful of the musicians that you felt you were almost part of a meeting at a church or a temple, where everyone was completely in tune with the sermon and what the whole event was about.
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.
American poetry to me is a sort of relentless, nonstop sermon on human autonomy.
And I don't have to listen to a sermon to know what to think or feel about them. It's almost as if I absorbed completely what mattered most to me, and the rest could go.
We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices.
Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of your argument. A sermon without a text is an argument without a proof.
If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
Because we employ no professional preachers, it means that every sermon or lesson in church is given by a regular member - women and men, children and grandparents.
I try to tell a story that's good enough to win the right to integrate eternal themes into it. If it's poorly written or comes across as a sermon, then obviously you don't reach people, because they're aware that you're imposing something on a story that isn't innate to it.