Comments on: Seeing Beauty And Saying Beautifully https://headhearthand.org/blog/2014/05/23/seeing-beauty-and-speaking-beautifully/  Informing Minds. Moving Hearts. Directing Hands. Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 By: Midweek Roundup – 5/28/14 | Crossway https://headhearthand.org/blog/2014/05/23/seeing-beauty-and-speaking-beautifully/#comment-45878 Wed, 28 May 2014 13:31:28 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=17852#comment-45878 […] 5. David Murray reviews Seeing Beauty and Saying Beautifully by John Piper […]

]]> By: Les https://headhearthand.org/blog/2014/05/23/seeing-beauty-and-speaking-beautifully/#comment-45852 Fri, 23 May 2014 15:59:00 +0000 http://headhearthand.org/?p=17852#comment-45852 It’s a great disservice to the Gospel for anyone to preach a boring or poorly prepared sermon. I knew a neuroscientist who could take an arcane subject, the role of astrocytes in premature puberty, and make it sound absolutely fascinating to a lay audience and those folks walked away with a pretty good understanding of the material. I don’t understand why pastors won’t put the same amount of love, craftsmanship and study/preparation into their sermons as an agnostic scientist puts into his lectures. There are always people in the congregation who can tell when a sermon is thrown together.

John Bunyan’s prose is probably the finest I’ve ever read. He’s at his best in A Saints Knowledge of Christ’s Love and in Advice to Sufferers. Please take time to read these two books. There are passages on Christ’s love in Saint’s Knowledge that make me hunger to know what he writes of. The prose makes Jesus’s love mouth wateringly good for a hungry soul!

Bunyan also describes pride in self righteousness as nothing more than a man “wearing a menstrual cloth” over his head. This is quite shocking but very much to the point.

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