Preaching is not a profession, it's a passion! If a man can't preach with passion he shouldn't preach at all.
For me acting is just a profession. As much passion I have for my profession, I always seperate profession from life.
Rather than a profession, photography has always been a passion for me, a passion closer to an obsession.
In each profession, you need to feel passion for that in order to give it your best performance. Football is my passion.
I know what I'll be preaching in the spring, what I'll be preaching in the summer, and what I'll be preaching next fall.
Passion for what you do is essential to success in any profession. That passion naturally keeps you interested and aware of everything that is going on around you, anything affecting your craft.
Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.
What do our clergy lose by reading their sermons? They lose preaching, the preaching of the voice in many cases, the preaching of the eye almost always.
The three essentials for great preaching are: truth, clarity, and passion.
Underlying the preaching of the Puritans are three basic axioms: 1. The unique place of preaching is to convert, feed and sustain, 2. The life of the preacher must radiate the reality of what he preaches, 3. Prayer and solid Bible study are basic to effective preaching.
Do not suppose, dearest Sir, that I am so short-sighted as to destroy my life by English preaching, or any other preaching. St. Paul did much good by his preaching, but how much more by his writings.
Ya'll don't hear what I'm preaching. I'm preaching so good I'm about to 'Amen' myself! Oh!...Oh God! I'm preaching good! Hallelujah!
Cinema is a passion for me, not a profession.
Let passion drive your profession.
A church that suffers no persecution but enjoys the privileges and support of the things of the earth - beware! - is not the true church of Jesus Christ. A preaching that does not point out sin is not the preaching of the gospel. A preaching that makes sinners feel good, so that they are secured in their sinful state, betrays the gospel's call.