Daniel Ligon

“Theological reflection…is a rigorous and prayerful discipline of taking the time to meditate on my text and how it relates to God’s plan of redemption. It is an exercise that asks how my passage relates to the Bible as a whole, especially to the saving acts of God in Jesus.”
― David R. Helm, Expositional Preaching: How We Speak God's Word Today

“If family were easy, we could do it in our own fleshly self-propelled willpower. If we could do it on our own, we would not bear a cross. And if we are not bearing a cross, then what we are doing would not matter in the broad sweep of eternity. Family matters. That’s why it is hard.”
― Russell D. Moore, The Storm-Tossed Family: How the Cross Reshapes the Home

“Contextualization in preaching is communicating the gospel message in ways that are understandable or appropriate to the listener’s cultural context.”
― David R. Helm, Expositional Preaching: How We Speak God's Word Today

“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