Posted by Ray Pritchard on 2.2.10 in Pastors, Preaching
Notes taken from Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers by Charles E. Jefferson, Chapter 12, “Building the Tower."A church likes to feel itself in the grip of a man who knows not only where he is going but also by what stages the goal can in all probability best be reached. Some men’s sermons are only bushwhackers fig…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 2.1.10 in Pastors, Preaching
Notes taken from Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers by Charles E. Jefferson, Chapter 11, “The Value of a Target.""It is easier to lose one’s way in the ministry than in any other calling.""Even men who work prodigiously on their sermons may forget the end for which sermons ought to be prepared.""An aiml…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 1.31.10 in Pastors, Preaching
Notes taken from Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers by Charles E. Jefferson:"The world does not know how great a tax upon a sensitive man an earnest sermon is. No man can vitalize other men without devitalizing himself. Sermons that heal and lift have in them the red blood of the preacher’s heart.” “A disheartened man takes the…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 1.30.10 in Pastors, Preaching
Notes taken from Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers by Charles E. Jefferson, Chapter 9, “Clerical Hamlets."Whatever else a minister may be he must be preeminently a man of good cheer.” …
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 1.29.10 in Keep Believing Ministries, Pastors, Preaching
Yesterday I received a note from someone who wanted to know my views on those who use my material in their own preaching and writing. It seems that he had run across an unusual case (at least it is unusual in my experience) and wanted to know my opinion. How do I feel when I find out that other people out there somewhere, unnamed and unknown to me,…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 1.29.10 in Pastors, Preaching
Notes taken from Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers by Charles E. Jefferson, Chapter 8, “Impatience.""Excessive boldness is recklessness, and recklessness wrecks a church.""Spunk is good, but the servant of the Lord must be something more than fighting-cock or bulldog.""No other single sin works such havoc in…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 1.28.10 in Pastors, Preaching
Notes taken from Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers by Charles E. Jefferson, Chapter 7, “Cowardice.""It is easier to call a man a coward than to prove him one.""A man may be a coward without knowing it.""Surely no minister can be other than a coward unless strength be given him from above. All things conspire…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 1.27.10 in Pastors, Preaching
Notes taken from Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers by Charles E. Jefferson, Chapter 6, “The Foremost of the Demons.""It is not true, as some men think, that all clergymen are lazy, but it is true that they like other men are tempted, and alas, too many of them succumb."’Not infrequently a man will fuss and bustle over m…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 1.26.10 in Pastors, Preaching
Notes taken from Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers by Charles E. Jefferson, Chapter 5,"Starts Good and Bad.""A bad start in a pastorate is disastrous. The blunders of the first few weeks may throw a shadow over many years.""When the minister goes into his new parish he ought to give himself at once to his supreme task, f…
Posted by Ray Pritchard on 1.25.10 in Pastors, Preaching
Notes taken from Quiet Hints to Growing Preachers by Charles E. Jefferson, Chapter 4, “Which Door?""It is well for a man not to be too heavily weighted with theories at the beginning of his career.""A man ought to preach not where he wants to preach but where he can preach.""But suppose a field is hard, sha…
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