"I believe that the only form of authentic Christian preaching is expository preaching." -- Al Mohler

I have a bunch of quotes here about preaching that I need to have in one place and I don't want to lose them. Here goes:

“No better portrait of expository preaching could be found than in Nehemiah 8:8. After the people gather at the Water Gate and demand that 'the book' be brought forward, the text says of Ezra and his fellow scribes that 'they read from the book, from the law of God, clearly, and they gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading.' 'Giving the sense' is not merely the act of translating from one language to another. It has to do with explaining a text, breaking it down, and making its meaning clear to the congregation. Essentially, this is what it means to preach. The heart and soul of expository preaching--of any true Christian preaching--is reading the Word of God and then explaining it to the people so that they understand it.”–Al Mohler, He Is Not Silent

“First there will be careful exposition of God's truth, so that hearers clearly understand what God says, and then there will be an appeal to men and women's wills to respond with reasonable obedience. . . . If we are to expound the whole will of God, we must know His will in detail, and that can be achieved only by a grasp of the whole of Scripture. Admittedly, it is a lifetime assignment, but that provides no excuse for laziness. We should beware of preaching only from passages of Scripture with which we are already familiar. It is easy to neglect the Old Testament, since we tend to be more familiar with the New. But we need the instruction, encouragement, and comfort of all the Scriptures, and if shepherds and teachers do not lead God's people into the pastures of the Old as well as the New, the sheep are unlikely to lead themselves into them. To bring our people into fresh pastures we must continually break new ground.”–Derek Prime, On Being a Pastor

“So what we find in groups where Greek and Hebrew are not cherished and pursued and promoted is that expository preaching--which devotes a good bit of the sermon to explaining the meaning of the text--is not much esteemed by the preachers or taught in the seminaries.”–John Piper, Brothers, We Are Not Professionals

“Expository preaching is the communication of a biblical concept, derived from and transmitted through a historical, grammatical, and literary study of a passage in its context, which the Holy Spirit first applies to the personality and experience of the preacher, then through the preacher, applies to the hearers.”
“Expository preaching at its core is more a philosophy than a method. Whether or not we can be called expositors starts with our purpose and with our honest answer to the question: ‘Do you, as a preacher, endeavor to bend your thought to the Scriptures, or do you use the Scriptures to support your thought?’ This is not the same question as, ‘Is what you are preaching orthodox or evangelical?’ Nor is it the same as, ‘Do you hold a high view of the Bible or believe it to be the infallible Word of God?’ As important as these questions may appear in other circumstances, a passing grade in systematic theology does not qualify a person as an expositor of the Bible.”–Haddon Robinson, Biblical Preaching

“On the Sunday after his return Calvin mounted the pulpit in St. Peter's and began with the very chapter and verse of the Bible where he had left off preaching three years earlier . . . ‘Nothing could have been less dramatic or more effective. . . . In this way Calvin signaled that he intended his life and his theology to be, not a device of his own making, but a responsible witness to the Word of God” (George quoted by Lindberg in The European Reformations).