Posted by Ray Pritchard on 2.15.10 in Pastors, Preaching
Notes taken from Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers by Charles E. Jefferson, Chapter 25, “Eagles, Race-horses and Plodders.”The high art of walking is one which the minister must master. He must have a genius for plodding. The clergyman who is able to trudge bravely through the years, filling the months with quiet honest work, pressing h…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 2.14.10 in Pastors, Preaching
Notes taken from Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers by Charles E. Jefferson, Chapter 24, “Near to Men Near to God.” A man may be a pagan alone, he cannot be a Christian. A preacher of Christianity must live as close as possible to men. Isolation to him is fatal. If he has a disposition which shrinks from the society of others his disposit…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 2.13.10 in Pastors, Preaching
Notes taken from Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers by Charles E. Jefferson, Chapter 23, “Books and Reading."There are preachers who would be stronger in their ministry if they read fewer books.Books are numerous and cheap and no other working man in the town has so many hours in a wee which can be given to reading as the minister. A par…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 2.12.10 in Pastors, Preaching
Notes taken from Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers by Charles E. Jefferson, Chapter 22, “Thy Speech Betrayeth Thee."The greatest danger to which a young man is subjected in the Seminary, is not, as many timid folks imagine, heretical interpretations of the Scriptures but a style of language which the plain people do not understand.The …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 2.11.10 in Pastors, Preaching
Notes taken from Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers by Charles E. Jefferson, Chapter 21, “Mannerisms."Mannerisms as a rule are veritable dragons which throwing themselves between the preacher and his hearers must be warred against and slain. Eternal vigilance is the price the man of God must pay for deliverance from this plague of pulp…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 2.10.10 in Pastors, Preaching
Notes taken from Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers by Charles E. Jefferson, Chapter 20, “Meanness.” …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 2.9.10 in Pastors, Preaching
Notes taken from Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers by Charles E. Jefferson, Chapter 19, “Foolishness."Beginning a speech with an apology is a piece of nonsense unprovoked and inexcusable, but if you wish to break a man of that habit he must be caught young. Why squander time in announcing what will become perfectly clear before one si…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 2.8.10 in Pastors, Preaching
Notes taken from Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers by Charles E. Jefferson, Chapter 17,"Pettiness.” Certain vices only mar, others lacerate and kill. Not one of them kills more surely than a petty disposition. The Christian religion is nothing if not large.A sermon is the life-blood of a an baptized into the spirit of the Lord, and every…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 2.7.10 in Pastors, Preaching
Notes taken from Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers by Charles E. Jefferson, Chapter 17, “Discontent."Discontent may be said to be one of the prevailing sins of the ministerial world. How prevalent it is the public does not fully know, for ministers who are discontented do not shout their dissatisfaction from the house-top.They write it …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 2.6.10 in Pastors, Preaching
Notes taken from Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers by Charles E. Jefferson, Chapter 16, “Vanity.” “Every gift, no matter what it is, has a coiled serpent it. A man’s deadliest danger lies ever at the center of his greatest strength.""Many a man has had his usefulness destroyed by the very gift which should have car…
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