sermon we preach in light of the biblical change it brings about in the lives of our congregants! Look back again. Recall the sermons you judged as flops—even you couldn’t wait until the clock struck twelve! Yet in time you came to find how God used those sermons to significantly touch lives. Evaluating a sermon on technical merit is important, to be sure, but long after we’ve dissected our grammar we should witness real change in the lives of the people God has placed in our hands. A FAMINE IN THE
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