Most people will list speaking appeal and ability to draw a crowd as major elements in identifying a fine preacher. I differ. After 40 plus years of delivering from behind or in front of a pulpit, here's what I think are the main traits a Christian preacher should possess: #1 Personal Stability. He or she should basically be a healthy person, one who thinks clearly and is physically able to carry out a preacher's t asks. #2 An accurate understanding of the faith he or she

#1 Danger in Over-Sleeping A.B. was from my hometown and we attended UT Austin for three of the same years. It was during final exams fort the fall semester, 1958-1959 that I ran into her outside a classroom building She was in tears and terribly distraught. I asked her abpit her problem "I stayed up all night studying for myvFrench final.," A.B. explqined. "You'll be okay," I told her. "We've all done that, and we recovered every time." "But that's not all," she responde

Can We Recover our Personal Allegiance to Integrity? ? Is it possible for our world of the 21st century to have people in high (and low) places who are dedicated to living as honestly as they possibly can? Perhaps not. It may be that we humans of the 2020's have immersed ourselves so deeply into ",alomg money" that we have lost contact with our better selves. We are not at all surprised when some well-known person is revealed to be a pedophile, or someone just as self-cente