Pulpit and Pew: As Seen from the Pulpit

Have you ever wondered what goes on in the mind of the minister as he is in the pulpit, or even while he is preaching? For one thing he has made a lot of preparation. Our professors in the seminary often told us that in preparing a sermon we must let the text speak to us. We should not approach a text with some preconceived notion and try to fit the text into what we want it to say. The text must speak, and we must listen. This involves a study of the original language, either the Hebrew or...