I preach on specific sins because people are not convicted by sermons on sin in general. It was when our Lord said to the Samaritan woman, 'Go call thy husband...' (John 4:16), that she really faced up to her sinfulness.

We are suffering from a believism that never has believed, and a receivism that never has received, and it leads to deceivism.

The preacher who jests and jokes with his people all week will soon find that he cannot stand in his pulpit on Sunday with power to reprove, rebuke and exhort. He may be the life of the party but it will be the death of the prophet.

Jesus is all we have; he is all we need and all we want. We are shipwrecked on God and stranded on omnipotence!

The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

We need to take down our "Do not disturb" signs... snap out of our stupor and come out of our coma and awake from our apathy.

Satan does some of his worst work on exhausted Christians when nerves are frayed and the mind is faint.