Getting by with a Little Help from My Friends (with thanks to Lennon and McCartney)
Senior Pastor of Reid Memorial Presbyterian Church in Augusta, Ga., and a contributing editor to Preaching magazine
There is an old joke about a famous preacher of a former generation who regularly mounted his tall steeple pulpit, raised both hands level with his shoulders, and proceeded to preach while holding two erect fingers in the air until his sermon was finished. When asked about that habit he replied, "I do it because everything I say quotes somebody else!""Cut-and-paste preaching!" Twice in the recent past, investigating groups contacted me to ask about published sermons of mine that another preacher...
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