Preaching: I addition to anxiety about terrorism and war, there's also an economic unsettledness in the U.S. right now. In your church you have a broad range of economic conditions -- from people of modest means to people of great means. How do you speak to that issue? Does that make a difference in your preaching?

Graham: In our church, regardless of economic status, everyone faces the fragility of the times economically. There are very few people who have not been touched by this, no matter where they are on their pay grade -- especially in our area where there were a lot of dot-com businesses that opened and closed. At the upper end of things you've got people who are losing in the stock market daily. Regardless of a person's economic status, everyone is facing more difficult times.

Interestingly, we are in the middle of a capital campaign. We started a capital campaign for the second phase of our building program literally two weeks after 9/11 -- we relocated the church and are now completing that relocation. Yet -- and I would attribute this to the fresh wind blowing through our church -- people have responded with sacrifice.

We have spoken of giving out of affluence and abundance, but also out of sacrifice in times of economic stress, and our people have responded to that. Also, the preaching and teaching of the Word of God just leads naturally to the building of the body in people's lives who do realize that their hope is beyond the material and their strength is in Christ. So you really couldn't have a better time to be preaching the great truths of scripture than right now.

Although you don't wish for such things, to me personally it's easier to preach in hard times because people are more open and honest and more needy of the message rather than in times of affluence and pride. We've been humbled by this, and when we are humbled under the hand of God, then He moves.

Preaching: Tell me about your own preaching style?

Graham: Over the years my preaching style has not changed, from rural churches in Oklahoma to West Palm Beach to the Dallas area. It hasn't changed because I believe the most effective way if preaching is to simply take the scripture, explain it, illustrate it and apply it, which is biblical, expositional preaching. That kind of preaching covers every conceivable subject and matter.

At Prestonwood, I am consistently teaching a passage of scripture -- for the most part preaching through books. I'm preaching through Genesis right now. Last year I was preaching through Ephesians. Coming up next year I'll do the Sermon on the Mount, so it will be a smaller series.

My preaching is somewhat typical of expositional preaching. I don't do verse-by-verse homilies. I try to take a passage and outline it, structure the sermon and deliver it. My preaching is very Christocentric. My goal is to introduce people to faith in Jesus Christ, so there's always an evangelistic appeal in my preaching. Each time I pr each I make every effort to share the Gospel -- the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ. My preaching is very invitational. I would say it is somewhat confrontational -- with truth -- and I would say it is expositional.