Emphasis Preaching Journal

One preacher tells of his earliest memory of a sermon. Until that Easter the young man had never really listened to or remembered many sermons. But this Sunday he'd seen the preacher before the service. On an impulse he asked what the preacher intended to say. The preacher took him over to the Bible, found the 20th chapter of John and described the enthusiasm which gripped the disciples on Easter morning. The sermon would address the sheer excitement that the resurrection evokes.