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                    PREACH CHRIST...?
A middle-aged farmer wanted to be a preacher for years, but wasn't sure if it was God's will. One day, while he was working in the field, he decided to rest under a tree. As he looked up into the sky he saw that the clouds seemed to form into the letters P and C. As he thought
                    
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                    Contributed by Dale  Pilgrim on Jun 7, 2010
                
                
                
                    RISK OF PREACHING CHRIST
Dr Mark L. Y. Chan, PhD in Hermeneutics and Christology (University of Nottingham) is a Lecturer in Theology at the Trinity Theological College, Singapore. He rightly notes, "Christians who persist in proclaiming Christ as
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 26, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Illustration: Farmer called to preach. Sitting under a tree sees letters P and C in the clouds. Decides it means “Preach Christ.” Sells farm and equipment goes to preach. He was horrible. After a sermon a neighbor came
                    
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                    Contributed by Rusty Davidson on Feb 19, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Farmer felt called to preach. Sitting under a tree sees letters P and C in the clouds. Decides it means “Preach Christ.” Sells farm and equipment goes to preach. He was horrible. After a sermon a neighbor came to
                    
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                    Contributed by Stephen Wright on Oct 10, 2004
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Years ago the gospel was preached to a number of tribes in Central Africa. Many people responded to the message and received new life in Christ. Since they had no church building where they could gather for a time of prayer, they cleared a central spot in the jungle for that purpose. Soon
                    
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                    Contributed by Bobby Scobey on Apr 22, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife:  to preach that the highest form of success comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from
                    
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                    "For all of its foibles—-lousy preaching, political infighting, self-centered focus, stagnation, a gaggle of special interest groups—-the pokey local church...is still the most fertile environment for spiritual development. In fact, there can be no genuine spiritual progress without a long-term
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 28, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    PREACH THE CROSS
J. A. James is quoted as saying, "Although the pulpit is intended to be a pedestal for the cross, even the cross itself is sometimes used as a mere pedestal for the preacher's fame. We may roll the thunders of eloquence, we may scatter the flowers of poetry, we may diffuse the
                    
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                    Contributed by Richard Francis on May 26, 2009
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    PROPHETIC PREACHING
A.W. Tozer, one described as a modern-day prophet, spoke these words in the 1950’s and describes the need for prophetic preachers:
"If Christianity is to receive a rejuvenation, it must be by other means than any now being used. If the Church in the second half of this century
                    
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                    Contributed by John Akosile on Jun 1, 2009
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    PREACHING THAT KILLS
The preaching that kills is non-spiritual preaching. The ability of the preaching is not from God. Lower sources than God have given to it energy and stimulant. The Spirit is not evident in the preacher nor his preaching. Many kinds of forces may be projected and stimulated by
                    
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                    "MONSTROUS" PREACHING
In the 18th Century, Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntington invited the Duchess of Buckingham to come and hear George Whitfield preach.
After listening to Whitfield, the Duchess wrote to the Countess of Huntington about the Gospel that Whitefield and his fellow "Methodists"
                    
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                    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Mar 20, 2011
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    PREACHING AND PRACTICING
There were two doctors with the same name who lived a few doors apart. One doctor was a Christian and a lay preacher; the other doctor made no profession of faith.
One night a rather sick person, who was also a Christian,
and wanting help from a fellow believer, knocked
                    
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                    Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Jun 22, 2011
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    PREACHING AND TEACHING
Joseph Trenaman found that listening to more and more material in a lecture seemed to interfere with learning from the earlier lecturing.
A class listening to 15 minutes of lecture remembered 41% of what was presented; those listening to 30 minutes remembered 23% of the
                    
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