Look after Your Voice: Taking Care of the Preacher’s Greatest Asset (Biblia.com)

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As a hammer is to a carpenter, a scalpel to a surgeon, a trowel to a brick mason or a needle to a tailor—so the voice is to a preacher. Man’s voice is the primary means God uses to deliver His Word to mankind, yet how often we who are called to impart the most important truths in the world are apt to neglect, if not willfully abuse our all-vital ‘tool of the trade’. Can there be any more pitiful...

There is ‘a time to be silent and a time to speak’ (Eccles. 3:7), and this is certainly true for the preacher. We must be aware of the danger of being ‘speaking machines’, simply churning out word after word without end, which only succeeds in tiring the listeners, causing them to switch off altogether. No matter how interesting and attractive a voice may sound, silence really is golden at times, and it would be good for us to remember what is often called ‘the power of the pause’ and trust

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