This outstanding book is devoted exclusively to the problems of sermon delivery. Written for both seminary students and the estab-lished preacher, it covers the essentials of speech skills from breathing to the mastery of notes at the creative moment of delivery.

The weighty responsibility of preaching effectively is summarized in the ringing challenge of the author's words:

One of the most important things a minister does week by week is to deliver his sermons to his people. It is then and only then that the fire in his soul is or is not communicated. It is then and find their target or miss it altogether. It is then that the hours in the study preparing the sermon are ratified or nullified.

for the preacher himself. It has to do with a great deal more than The delivery of a sermon is a profoundly searching experience a few techniques. It proves a man, mind and soul. The spoken sermon is the point at which the whole of a man's life and train-ing comes most vividly into focus.