Adrian Warnock interviewed John Piper while he was in Wales for New Word Alive. The interview is available in four video segments:
HT: Desiring God
The Bible says in Colossians 4:6 (RSV), “Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt.” When you cook a meal, the flavoring is not the meat, but it sure makes the meat taste better. The same is true for your sermons.Chuck Swindoll says: “If you think that the gathering of biblical facts and standing up with a Bible in your hand will automatically equip you to communicate well, you are deeply mistaken. You must work at being interesting. Boredom is a gross violation. Being dull is a grave offense. Irrelevance is a disgrace to the Gospel. Too often these three crimes go unpunished and we preachers are the criminals.”
After I have the basic sermon down, I try to flavor it with three things: Read more…
by, Rick Warren
The bigger the church gets the more important the pulpit becomes because it is the rudder of the ship. Where else do you get an hour of undivided attention with all these people on a weekly basis? Most pastors do not understand the power of preaching. But even more important than that is they don’t understand the purpose of preaching. I’ve read more than 500 books on preaching, and as I’ve read them, the vast majority does not really understand that preaching is about transformation, not information. Read more…
by, Rick Warren
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