The problem with the modern man is that he has no sense of sin; he does not realize that he is ‘guilty before God’. One of the major reasons for this tragic situation is that the modern man has been exposed to a type of preaching which is, all too often, innocuous and anemic. There can be no question but that the sins of the pulpit have come home to roost in the pew.

John Carrick, The Imperative of Preaching: A Theology of Sacred Rhetoric, 80.

Preaching certainly involves application, and application is an essential part of preaching. But explication is the essential prerequisite in preaching.

John Carrick, The Imperative of Preaching: A Theology of Sacred Rhetoric, 14.

It is evident from these scriptures that the great centralities of the gospel — the pre-existence of Christ, his incarnation, his atoning death, his resurrection from the dead — are expressed in the indicative mood. These great central facts of the gospel are not — indeed, they could not be — expressed in the imperative mood which denotes a command, a request, an exhortation; they are not — indeed, they could not be — expressed in the subjunctive mood which denotes that which is contingent, hypothetical, or prospective. No, these great central facts of the gospel are expressed in the Scriptures in the only mood that is consonant with them, namely, the indicative mood. Thus Machen’s observation, ‘Christianity begins with a triumphant indicative’, reveals the perceptiveness both of a grammarian and of a theologian.

John Carrick, The Imperative of Preaching: A Theology of Sacred Rhetoric, 10.

One of the benefits to the believer who reads mythology is an understanding of how ancient Man answered ultimate questions about life without the light of revelation.

Victor P. Hamilton, The Handbook on the Pentateuch, 68.

Every change in the industrial world since the Sabbath was instituted has been a new reason why God’s Sabbath laws and ours should not be changed.

Wilbur F. Crafts, Practical Christian Sociology, 187.