Daniel Ligon

“Family is not the gospel. If you think that family is the source of ultimate meaning in your life, then you will expect your family to make you happy, to live up to your expectations.”
― Russell D. Moore, The Storm-Tossed Family: How the Cross Reshapes the Home

“A man preacheth that sermon only well unto others which preacheth itself in his own soul.”
― John Owen, The True Nature of a Gospel Church and Its Government

“A faithful preacher starts the sermon preparation process by paying attention to a biblical text’s original audience and a text’s purposes for those readers. He 1) gives the biblical context control over the meaning of the text; 2) listens intently until he knows how the text fits within the overall message of the book; 3) sees the structure and emphasis of the text.”
― David R. Helm, Expositional Preaching: How We Speak God's Word Today

“Expository preaching is empowered preaching that rightfully submits the shape and emphasis of the sermon to the shape and emphasis of a biblical text. In that way, it brings out of the text what the Holy Spirit put there…and does not put into the text what the preacher thinks might be there.”
― David R. Helm, Expositional Preaching: How We Speak God's Word Today