I am grateful for this opportunity to share some of the work that I have prayed and labored over for more than forty years. Try as I might, I have never completed a sermon manuscript and thought to myself: "There, it's done." Sermons, I believe, are, by the power of the Holy Spirit, more than completed manuscripts or extemporaneous words--eloquent or simple--proclaimed by the preacher, but a means by which God speaks a word that sometimes challenges,...