Sermons For Lent And Easter
It has been pointed out --many times! --that no aspect of
worship has been so generally and ecumenically roasted as
preaching!1 The many jokes about preachers and sermons rank next
to, maybe slightly ahead of, jokes about mothers-in-law.
Being a preacher and teacher of preachers, I have heard my
share of funny stories about bad sermons. Like the one where the
student preacher, who just finished preaching his masterpiece,
piously asked the professor, "With what prayer should I begin my