Spurgeon calls it "A load of trash."

On April 28, 1878 Charles Haddon Spurgeon preached at the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London. This was Spurgeon's Church and he generally preached to keep his people focused on Christ. He of course, was a master orator and expositor. One of the things I like about his sermons is the fact that he was unconcerned about what outsiders might think. He preached scripture and scripture only. He added nothing to it and took nothing away. Below is an example to make this point:

[...] ”If there come any unto you, and bring not this doctrine, receive him not into your house, neither bid him God speed: for he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.”

He who does not hate the false does not love the true; and he to whom it is all the same whether it be God’s word or man’s, is himself unrenewed at heart. Oh, if some of you were like fathers you would not have tolerated in this age the wagon loads of trash under which the gospel has been of late buried by ministers of your own choosing. You would have hurled out of your pulpits the men who are enemies to the fundamental doctrines of your churches, and yet are crafty enough to become your pastors and undermine the faith of a fickle and superficial generation.

Most preachers today don't have the spine required to say things like that today. Instead they concern themselves with stroking the "felt needs" of those in attendance seldom even bothering to mention that Jesus began his ministry demanding repentance. I wonder what would be the case in American Christianity today if preachers actually preached the Word only instead of layering "trash" on top the Gospel?