Evaluating Sermon Criticism

The Fact of Criticism Sermons are criticized. A seminary student becomes painfully aware of that in the course called "Practice Preaching." And if he should think that with graduation from the seminary and ordination into the ministry he has seen the last of sermon critics, he will soon enough learn otherwise. That there is criticism of sermons arises, first of all, from the fact that God uses mere men. They are the weak and base things He is pleased to use to accomplish the "foolishness of...