About David Prince

David E. Prince is pastor of preaching and vision at Ashland Avenue Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky and assistant professor of Christian preaching at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the author of In the Arena and Church with Jesus as the Hero. He blogs at Prince on Preaching and frequently writes for The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, For the Church, the BGEA and Preaching Today

Thanksgiving in Everything, Not for Everything

The apostle Paul exhorts, “In everything give thanks” (1 Thess 5:18a). Paul lives and commands a life of thankfulness for all followers of Christ. Often, upon reading this verse, our minds immediately begin devising ways

Spurgeon on How True Humility Produces Holy Confidence

Below are excerpts from C.H. Spurgeon’s excellent sermon titled Pride and Humility (New Park Street, 1856).C.H. Spurgeon, (1856). “Pride and Humility,” in The New Park Street Pulpit Sermons (London: Passmore & Alabaster, 1856), 2:350-352.

C.H. Spurgeon’s Encouragement for Pastors, Young and Old

Below are excerpts from C.H. Spurgeon’s “A Sermon Upon One Nothing by Another Nothing,” in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Sermons, vol. 25 (London: Passmore and Alabaster), 85-96. The entire sermon is great gospel encouragement for

The Indispensable Value of Christ-Centered Courage

Something that my wife and I constantly tell our children is that giftedness and intelligence are vastly overrated. We also tell them that hard work, discipline, and convictional courage is vastly underrated. We tend to

Pastor, Do Not Neglect your Little Church at Home

Puritan William Perkins is said to have referred to the family and the Christian household as a “little church.” In somewhat of a similar vein, Lewis Bayly taught, “what the preacher is in the pulpit,