A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side the unsearchable riches of Christ are actually transported into personal lives upon the other. (Harry Emerson Fosdick)

A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged so that the spiritual goods on one side the unsearchable riches of Christ are actually transported into personal lives upon the other.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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