Review: Practicing The Preaching Life

Who among us has not heard (or preached!) sermons that were exegetically accurate, homiletically correct, thoughtfully applied and adequately delivered, yet which still seemed to fall flat? All the essential pieces are in place, yet there is a sense that some intangible quality (Authenticity? Credibility? Wisdom?) is missing. David Ward, Professor of Homiletics and Practical Theology at Indiana Wesleyan University, addresses this problem with the principled assertion that “preaching is more about life than it is about skills.”