Adam Hamilton
Adam Hamilton

When sermons start where people live - their questions, struggles, and concerns - and then offer a timely and helpful word from the Scriptures, people are more interested in hearing what else the Scriptures have to say.

Adam Hamilton
Adam Hamilton

My aim is that every sermon series I preach is prepared as though I were teaching a college-level course.

Adam Hamilton
Adam Hamilton

One thing that helps to stretch me is to listen to other preacher's sermons. Every year, I will listen to at least ten other preachers, both to hear God speak to me, and also to evaluate their preaching to see what I can learn and how I can improve my own preaching.

Adam Weishaupt
Adam Weishaupt

But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon.

Alan Dershowitz
Alan Dershowitz

In my neighborhood, everyone had an opinion on the local cantor. You didn't go to a synagogue to listen to the rabbi's sermon. You went to listen to the cantor. It was like a concert.

Allen West
Allen West

In the real world, I see conservatives volunteering at adoption agencies, at churches, at bake sales and the local American Legion Post while the only charity a progressive sends is a smug sermon on fair share and what fairness is.

Anna Julia Cooper
Anna Julia Cooper

Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too.

Anthea Butler
Anthea Butler

Forgiveness became a big part of the civil rights movement, juxtaposed against the violence of protesters and law enforcement. King described forgiveness in one of his early sermons as a pardon, a process of life, and the Christian weapon of social redemption.

Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh

We must learn from the sermons of Christ, the wisdom of Laotzu, the teachings of Buddha.

Charles Spurgeon
Charles Spurgeon

I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach.