I’m excited because today I’ll have the chance to hear Fred Craddock speak at Lipscomb. Craddock is something of a legend in the preaching world. He brought narrative preaching back to the forefront in evangelical preaching a couple of decades ago. His text Preaching is something of a textbook on the art of exegesis and style. He’ll be speaking at Lipscomb this afternoon. I’ve been looking forward to this for a couple weeks. This guy’s been someting of a hero to me over the years. Can’t wait to hear him talk about his craft.
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One of the interesting things Craddock said was this: “To this day, I much prefer preparing a sermon to preaching one.” It seems that several people tried to discourage Craddock from preaching when he was a young man. Now, he says, every time he preaches, he still hears their negativity, telling him he’s not cut out for preaching. Craddock is 79 now. Those naysayers are still wreaking their havoc some 60 years later. Will we ever realize how powerful our words are?