preach with the right passion. On the other hand, we should also admit that some preaching produces a great deal of emotional smoke without any substantive fire. Fervor without strong content is no more helpful than substance without passion. We cannot reduce sermonic pathos to the worked up energy and charisma of the messenger. Scripture not only offers us revealed truth, but it also gives us prescribed tones. We are no more free to impose false emotions upon the spirit of a text than we are to levy