"This is what you must do with your sermons, make them red-hot. Never mind if men say you are too enthusiastic or even too fanatical. Give them red-hot shot, because there’s nothing else half as good for the purpose you have in view. We don’t go out snow-balling on Sundays, we go fire-balling in order to hurl grenades into the enemy’s ranks." - Charles Haddon Spurgeon, The Soul Winner: How to Lead Sinners to the Saviour
A cold, hard cannonball is hard to move.
A cannonball shot red-hot is hard to resist.
"Hard preaching produces soft hearts and soft preaching produces hard hearts."
- Jim Wilson
Cook your cannonballs ahead of time and then when you preach, fire away!
If you make snowballs out of falling snowflakes, you only reformat the snow and what you throw only redistributes it. However, if you take red-hot shot and fire it at snowmen, you will change its form and its state... not to mention the entire landscape.
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