Emphasis Preaching Journal

A few days following the preaching of a sermon on heaven, a layman commented, "You told me about heaven, but you did not tell me where heaven is." Pointing to a small house on a hill, the minister replied, "In that house is a church member who is sick with a fever. Now, if you will, go to the grocery store and purchase $10 worth of groceries, take them to her and say, 'Let me read the twenty-third Psalm and have prayer with you.' If you do not see heaven when you get through, I promise to pay for your groceries." The following morning they met again. The layman said, "I saw heaven yesterday.