Emphasis Preaching Journal

"John and April," the pastor began, "the building blocks on the altar are my wedding gift to you. It is quite likely that as children both of you played with blocks very much like these. As you played with these blocks you discovered that if you took the time to snap them together, then your imagination was the limit to things which you could build. As a child you would have learned that by fitting the blocks carefully together you could spend many enjoyable hours building something that brought you pleasure.