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A Voice in the Wilderness: Clear Preaching in a Complicated World is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Pressure is On. Sometimes you may feel like you are facing a football defensive line: a half-ton mass and muscle whose sole objective is to pound you into the turf. The demands of the ministry can feel like that, especially when you’re faced by pressures like: How can I compete with the communication “masters” my parishioners listen to on the radio and television every week? How can I...

United Methodist pastorates in Georgia and South Carolina. His many books include Preaching to Strangers: Evangelism in Today’s World (Westminster/John Knox) and Peculiar Speech: Preaching to the Baptized (Eerdmans). Martin Luther once said, “A good preacher should have these properties and virtues: first, to teach systematically; secondly, he should have a ready wit; thirdly, he should be eloquent; fourthly, he should have a good voice; fifthly, a good memory; sixthly,
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