Great preachers

Haddon Robinson, the preaching professor for my D.Min., on characteristics of great preachers:

The pastor of a local church who knows his or her people and brings to them a Word from God in that context, will preach a great sermon. The noted preachers are usually well known because they occupied well-known pulpits. What distinguishes them it is that they spoke to the condition of their day. They had something to say, and they said it in the context of their people. I really don