Category: Quote of the Day

Years ago I was to address an evangelistic conference in First Baptist Church of Dallas, Texas. I prepared two messages for that occasion and another for Southwestern Seminary. In addition I found myself getting together material for a message about John Wesley. I could not understand why all this Methodist information was accumulating when I was going to preach to Baptists. But when I arrived in Dallas I was invited to speak to the ministerial students at Southern Methodist University. How often the Lord prepares us beforehand for what He is preparing for us!

Spurgeon wrote something to the effect that it is better to be a lean bird in the woods than a fat bird in a cage. Today’s young minister is tempted to feather his next in a comfortable parish with plenty of security. A caged eagle is a sad sight but sadder still is a caged preacher. Gypsy Smith used to say, “I was born in a field; don’t put me in a flowerpot!”