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A Shot of Encouragement

Nothing More Terrible

To me there is nothing more terrible for a preacher, than to be in a pulpit alone, without the conscious smile of God.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Revival, 295

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A Shot of Encouragement

A Coward’s Castle

Lloyd-Jones protested against the use of the pulpit as what he called “a coward’s castle” into which a man might retreat to vent his spleen on his enemies or simply as a place where he can express his own view.

—Tony Sargent, A Sacred Anointing, 149