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Chapter Eight | “Jesus Christ is not only the preacher’s subject; he must also be preacher’s model, shaping how we should speak of him. … If preachers are to set forth Christ faithfully in the full colours of his glory, we must, like him, delight in God and love the sinners we address.”

Chapter Seven | “Preachers, if you would turn hearts to God, you must always give people the one message with the power of God to win their hearts. … Let people see the sheer beauty of Christ [in your preaching]. Show them how he is better and more delightful than all the idols that entrance them. Open their eyes, and so win their hearts with the gospel.”

Chapter Six “As God does, preachers must use their words to exalt Christ, to reason and persuade, to capture the imagination and desires of their people. Dullness does not express the beauty of a heart-winning Savior. We must, ask JC Ryle put it, turn our hearers’ ears into eyes and make them clearly see what we speak of. For it is by beholding the glory of the Lord that they will be transformed (2 Cor. 3:18).”

Chapter Five | “Preachers must be concerned for both the heads and the hearts of their listeners. They share the light of the knowledge of God in order that those who hear may share the life of God. They share a knowledge of God that cannot be separated from a love of God. Preaching should foster worship.”

Chapter Four | “If the desire of the Father, the work of the Spirit, and the purpose of Scripture is to herald Jesus, then so must the faithful preacher. If the Son‘s great and eternal goal is to win for himself a bride, that is heralds must woo for him.”