Emphasis Preaching Journal

Ralph had just purchased a piece of land on which sat an abandoned farmyard. It was his intention to use the yard as the base for his new country home. In the back of the yard sat an old barn that was filled with rotting straw bales. The loft floor had collapsed and the bales spilled from the gaping doorway. Ralph decided that the easiest way to remove the barn was to burn it, after all the straw was dry and the wood was dry. One evening after work, Ralph and several friends gathered around the old barn with the goal of burning it down.