Arturo G. Azurdia III, Spirit Empowered Preaching

I recently finished reading Spirit Empowered Preaching by Arturo G. Azurdia III. This book doesn't make it into my favorite books on preaching category (the pink cover alone disqualifies it), but it was still a helpful read for me as a preacher. I especially appreciated chapter 3 on the Christ-centered nature of the Bible/preaching. Here are a few of my favorite quotes from the book:

"...the Bible now comes to us through the grid of the gospel.""The preacher wakes up on Lord's Day morning and he can smell the smoke of hell on one side and feel the crisp breezes of heaven on the other."

And I LOVED this quote that Azurdia included from Charles Spurgeon:

"Don't you know, young man, that from every town  and every village and every hamlet in England, wherever it may be, there is a road that leads to London?... So from every text in scripture there is a road towards the great metropolis, Christ. And my dear brother, your business is, when you get to a text, to say, now what is the road that leads to Christ?... the sermon cannot do any good unless there is a savor of Christ in it."