One of my heroes is Bishop Gerald Kennedy. He was the Bishop in Southern California who extended me the invitation to join his conference when we were under such great pressure in Mississippi back in 1964. I spent ten wonderful years under his leadership there in Southern California. He's one of the greatest preachers, I believe, on this century. He was fond of telling about the Anglican Bishop who defined a sermon in this fashion: "A sermon is what a preacher will travel across the continent to deliver, but will not walk across the street to hear."

Well there is something to that. Some of us who have been called to preach, and have kept that fire burning inside feel we're doing what we were created to do when in one way or another we're sharing God's news of salvation. And for some of us…