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Mike Abendroth
Counsel to Young Ministers
by Elisha Yale
Pastor, Preacher, Puritan, Missionary, and Educator
Whatever attention you may see fit to give to your style and diction, let it be only with the express view of making your sermons more effectual to the good of souls. Feed not the flock of God with sound and shadows and flowers instead of the substantial meat of the Word. The best sermon is that adapted to glorify Christ and save the souls of men. Dwell in the peculiarities of the Gospel. What it maintains in common with philosophy is not its glory, but what it maintains as peculiar to itself. I mean the justification of a dying sinner only by the righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Thomas Watson, "[Jesus] alone is the Prince of Preachers. He alone is the best of expositors."