In 1874, Frances Ridley Havergal penned a beautiful hymn of devotion, "Take My Life and Let It Be." One stanza is:
"Take my hands and let them move at the impulse of Thy love;
"Take my feet and let them be swift and beautiful for Thee,
"Swift and beautiful for Thee."
May these words be true of your feet as they carry you to proclaim His precious Word.
John A. Broadus,
On the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons (4th ed., San Francisco, CA: HarperCollins, 1979), 264.
Aristotle,
Art of Rhetoric (Cambridge, MA: Harvard, 2006), 17.
Steven J. Lawson,
Famine in the Land (Chicago, IL: Moody, 2003), 95.
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Reg Grant and John Reed,
Telling Stories to Touch the Heart (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 1990), 15.
Charles L. Bartow,
Effective Speech Communication in Leading Worship (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 1988), 86.
Charles H. Spurgeon,
Lectures to My Students (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 1954), 115.
Bryan Chapell,
Christ-Centered Preaching (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1994), 317.
Spurgeon,
Lectures to My Students, 115.
Duane Litfin,
Public Speaking (2nd ed., Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1992), 321.
Broadus,
On the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons, 290.
Haddon W. Robinson,
Biblical Preaching (2nd ed., Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 2001), 110.
Ibid., 210.
Fred B. Craddock,
Preaching (Nashville, TN: Abington, 1985), 220.
Jerry Vines and Jim Shaddix,
Power in the Pulpit (Chicago, IL: Moody, 1999), 64.
Ibid.
Craddock,
Preaching, 220-221.
Alex Montoya,
Preaching with Passion (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel, 2000).
Ibid., 16-18.
Spurgeon,
Lectures to My Students, 185.
Bruce Mawhinney,
Preaching with Freshness (Grand Rapids, MI: Kregel, 1997), 137.
John Piper,
The Supremacy of God in Preaching (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker, 1990).
Ibid., 99.
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