Excellent Preaching - Prepared and Powerful

A few nights ago I watched the final half hour of the Kennedy Center Honors. The Kennedy Center website states the following about how the honorees are chosen, “The primary criterion is excellence, and artistic achievement in dance, music, theater, opera, motion pictures, and television is considered.” Before I went to bed that night I spent some time reading the Bible and reflecting on the idea of excellence in my craft, preaching. While preachers do not preach for the accolades of an arts guild, there should be no less concern for excellence. As ambassadors of The Kingdom our aspirations for excellence in what we do should be exponentially more. Excellence in preaching requires that we be prepared and powerful . There should be a passion in our process from preparation to delivery, a thirst for excellence, an attention to detail. Like a gifted songwriter who makes a deliberate choice with every word, our desire to communicate effectively should be not less, but again,