I am off this Sunday and our church is blessed to have Jeremy Scott of Morningstar Baptist preaching. It is a blessing as a pastor to be confident that the guy filling the pulpit will preach the Word.
On a morning off, it seems like a good time to point out several passages about preaching that I have memorized. There are other obvious passages about preaching, but God has used these in a special way in my life and ministry.
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“What can I say for you, to what compare you, O daughter of Jerusalem? What can I liken to you, that I may comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your ruin is vast as the sea; who can heal you? Your prophets have seen for you false and deceptive visions; they have not exposed your iniquity to restore your fortunes, but have seen for you oracles that are false and misleading.(La 2:13-14).”
“Let the prophet who has a dream tell the dream, but let him who has my word speak my word faithfully. What has straw in common with wheat? declares the Lord. Is not my word like fire, declares the Lord, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?(Je 23:28-29).”
“ Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart. But we have renounced disgraceful, underhanded ways. We refuse to practice cunning or to tamper with God’s word, but by the open statement of the truth we would commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God. And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled only to those who are perishing. In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.(2 Co 4:1-4).”
“and at the proper time manifested in his word through the preaching with which I have been entrusted by the command of God our Savior;(Tit 1:3).”
