It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.

Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God.

And when we would make much of that which cannot matter much to thee, forgive us -a frequent part of the prayer that opened sermons.

In the spectrum of God's mysteries, preaching is a sacrament: Because of its sacramental reality some people have never again been the same.

It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.