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.

If you stand on the Word, you do not stand with the world.

Our Lord holds the keys to the doors of Christian service. You don't have to chase 'key men' around if you know the Keeper of the keys!

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.

Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. He never used the church as an adult nursery.

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

If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.