I thought I was taking a day off. Little did I know that I was about to learn more about preaching, on the Pecos River than I did in the Seminary classroom. My fishing partner that day was one of my editors, Ed Rowell, who was in transition between working as an editor at Leadership Journal to become the Managing editor of Growing Churches Magazine and Proclaim!, a preaching journal. On the drive from Albuquerque to my favorite spot on the Pecos, Ed told me about some of the
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