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Sermons usually say in other words what Scripture says, and do in other words what Scripture does --assure, warn, encourage, inform, inspire--. But they say and do Scripture in a great many ways and they can sound very different from each other depending on the acoustics of time, place, and audience.

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In this presentation two seminary presidents reflected on what they have learned about preaching through (at least) forty years of listening to sermons, including their own.

Presented at the 2010 Calvin Symposium on Worship.

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