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Preaching
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But all my life I’d remain a questioning man,
choosing debate over faith, sparring
with mystery, claiming logic over belief.
But in the funeral parlor, the grief
of seeing the shell of my mother’s body
bereft of spirit brought death to my inner cynic,
with her words, my god, my god,
being stuck in my throat as I stood
there, her broken son, preaching.
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The gospel is preached in the ears of all men; it only comes with power to some. The power that is in the gospel does not lie in the eloquence of the preacher otherwise men would be converters of souls. Nor does it lie in the preacher’s learning; otherwise it could consists of the wisdom of men. We might preach till our tongues rotted, till we should exhaust our lungs and die, but never a soul would be converted unless there were mysterious power going with it – the Holy Ghost changing the will
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