PASTORS AND PREACHERS “Preaching improves me. When I begin to speak, weariness disappears; when I begin to teach, fatigue too disappears.” “It is foolishness and a public madness to fill the cupboards with clothing,” John of Antioch exhorted the congregation, “and allow men who are created in God’s image and likeness to stand naked and trembling with the cold so that they can hardly hold themselves upright.” Eloquent and uncompromising preaching