I am reading the late Dr. Jack Miller's book of personal letters entitled, The Heart of a Servant Leader. Oh my, this collection is a treasure of grace and wisdom. In a letter to a preacher friend, Miller says, "I think the chief thing in effective ministry... is the presence of the Spirit in the man... When preaching is blandly intellectual, contentless exhortation, or (merely) heavily doctrinal, usually there is also missing the Spirit's presence. The man is only a man preaching to men—not a "bush aglow."

Oh, how I want to be the bush aglow. Please pray that I will be far less concerned with me, and consumed with Jesus— "to make each sermon a daring proclamation... of Christ in his glory and power (in the cross)."