The best study, prayer, and meditation can go for naught on Sunday morning if the preacher does not put his personal problems aside, says Per W. Larsen, pastor of 59th Street Lutheran Brethren Church in Brooklyn. “I carry on a little dialogue with myself as I drive to the church each week. I remind myself that God is not interested in having a defeated messenger in the pulpit. He wants his Word to go forth with power and conviction. My own inner problems, family conflicts,
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