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Unless we have some vital truth to present in our sermons and realize the importance of it to the heart, we had better be silent. [Meditations on Preaching, 45]

In preaching, it is one thing to make a point; it is a very different thing to drive that point home, i.e., to so present it that the hearers will leave feeling, I am the one that is referred to; it has to do with me; it sets forth my condition. [Meditations on Preaching, 45]

Preaching, to be effective, must be heart-searching, must reach the conscience; must, in the language of Scripture, be “quick and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword...and a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.” [Meditations on Preaching, 45]

A heart-searching sermon is not likely to call forth any flattering comments. It will be more likely to be received in silence, and the more conscious it makes us of our sins, the less disposition will there be to comment on it favorably. [Meditations on Preaching, 46]

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Then there's "Biblical Preaching and Communication" with these: Timothy Keller (1950-2023) Francis James Grimké

Francis James Grimké on entertaining/self-centered sermons and their preachers: "Such sermons are not only out of place but are absolutely no good so far as helping to advance the cause of Christ...Better that they were never uttered, better that all such men were out of ministry."

Y’all need to read Francis James Grimké’s “Meditations on Preaching” published by Log College Press. Here’s the good reverend talking about ‘great’ sermons: “When we speak of great sermons I wonder sometimes whether we really know what we’re talking about.”