M I N I S T RY | P R E A C H I N G
What Do You Want Me to Do? Why preachers should prepare their sermons with application in mind By TIFFANY ALLISON WOOD
70
Winter 2022
W
hen my husband and I traveled to Israel several years ago, our tour guide offered a never-ending stream of information about the sites we visited. As the stream flowed day after day, it became a river. We couldn’t handle all the information. A fellow tourist mentioned feeling overwhelmed, and the guide said, “Learning about the Holy Land is like drinking water out of a fire hose.” I turned to my husband and asked, “Isn’t it the tour guide’s job to put a nozzle on the hose?”
