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The Heart of the Preacher: Preparing Your Soul to Proclaim the Word is unavailable, but you can change that!

You can teach the craft, but you must first form the heart. Many preachers want to preach better, but they don’t always know how to go about improvement, and most books on preaching focus on the mechanics of the craft. But preaching involves more than the steps to take a text to sermon, because every time a preacher stands up to preach, their character shines through—for better or for worse. ...

In his book No Little People, Francis Schaeffer writes, “As there are no little people in God’s sight, so there are no little places. To be wholly committed to God in the place where God wants him—this is the creature glorified.” Schaeffer goes further; he counsels that we not seek a bigger place “unless the Lord himself extrudes us into a greater one.”1 I don’t recall ever reading the word “extrude” before, so I was thankful Schaeffer explained its meaning: The word extrude is important
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