must do. Before I get into the process of “digging,” now is a good opportunity to pass along some other helpful perspectives from a preacher to all public speakers. A sermon targets the heart of the listener to create a crisis of the will and then presses the individual for a decision, whether to place one’s trust in Christ for salvation or to make a specific, substantive change to live out that earlier decision. A sermon that doesn’t do that falls short of the mark. Preachers,