Someone came through and asked this non-apologetic question (smile)...
"I have myself 'quoted' from time to time the Barthian adage that a preacher should preach 'with the bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other.' A friend recently asked me where that was from!!? To my consternation I did not know. So I searched the internet and found many references to THE quote (with various wording and interesting interpretations), but no actual citation of 'chapter and verse'. If you have any knowledge of this quotes source, I would appreciate the enlightenment. I am almost beginning to wonder if it might be apocryphal.
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I did a little research , and came up with [but some of the links are invalid at this later date] ...
"I Don't have a clue (never actually heard it myself to my recollection), but ...
It was ascribed to D.L Moody at this site: http://www.cfdevotionals.org/devpg02/de020503.htm[LINK DEAD]
and to Billy Graham at: http://womanstouch.ag.org/womanstouch/profiles/prfls_jntprshll.cfm [LINK DEAD]
and to Reinhold Niebuhr at: www.allsoulsnyc.org/publications/sermons/ fcsermons/trial-jury.html [LINK DEAD]
and to Abraham Lincoln at: http://www.thanks-giving.org/Sermon2-20-02.txt [LINK DEAD]
and to Martin Luther at: http://www.circleofhope.net/dialogue/%20jan_1999.pdf. [LINK DEAD]
and to Charles Spurgeon at: http://www.northnet.org/lisbonopc/sermons/acts/Acts_2_14-41_(1).html[LINK DEAD]
"So, I am a loss as to what to suggest...(smile)
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