With all the time-constraints that engulf the ministry, the preacher of God’s Word must be a good steward of his sermon preparation. If he is not, he will feel the crunch come Sunday. One of the reasons we have such powerless, anemic, insipid preaching in the pulpit is because we have such flippant, ill-managed, frivolous preparation in the study. E.M. Bounds said it a little more tactfully, “A preacher who is enslaved in his study will be free in his pulpit.”
What may seem like 30 minutes of spoken exposition is really the manifestation of hours in books, in prayer, …