Wasted Breath

I have seen so many videos of strange announcements from national pulpits lately on non biblical personal feelings, personal politics, and personal choices, it is really concerning.
Preaching is a sacred trust. Every time we step behind the pulpit, we stand as heralds—not of ourselves, not of opinions, not of politics, and not of empty religious talk—but of Jesus Christ, the only Savior.
If our words don’t point people to Him, then our breath is wasted and our moment is missed.
Paul said it plainly:
“For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.”
— 1 Corinthians 2:2 (ESV)
The pulpit is not a platform for personalities—it's a spotlight for the Person of Christ.
When sermons drift from Jesus, they lose power:
No human wisdom can change a heart.
No motivational speech can save a soul.
No clever story can redeem the broken.
Only Jesus does that.
“For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord.”
— 2 Corinthians 4:5 (ESV)
The early church grew, not through novelty or noise, but through a Christ-centered message:
“And every day… they did not cease teaching and preaching that the Christ is Jesus.”
— Acts 5:42 (ESV)
If preaching doesn’t lift high the name of Jesus, it is merely words drifting into the air.
But when Jesus is proclaimed—lives change, hearts soften, chains break, and hope rises.
So may every preacher, every teacher, every church, and every ministry labor to echo the cry of John the Baptist:
“He must increase, but I must decrease.”
— John 3:30 (ESV)
Because anything spoken from the pulpit that does not point to Jesus… is wasted breath.
But anything that exalts Him carries eternal weight.