Images are the thoughts of the heart. You grow a soul by the cultivation of an image garden. People today are like the Israelites in the desert. They follow the pillars of fire and the cloud, not abstract commands and disembodied voices. Image-rich preaching moves beyond literacy to imagacy. Literacy is the ability to read, write, and think critically about words. Imagacy is the ability to read, use, and think critically about images and stories. The art of imagacy is what makes narraphors memorable. In an image-rich sermon, imagacy invites people to participate in the incarnational power of
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