comments that will help to explain the meaning of the Word of God. Be an attentive listener. While you are talking you are not learning anything. No one ever had a silver tongue who did not first have a golden ear. To me the best way to preach is to take the Bible book by book, section by section, paragraph by paragraph, verse by verse, and proclaim its meaning to the congregation with an emphatic and convincing ‘Thus saith the Lord!” One day in Dallas I started preaching