The Jazz of Preaching, 20th Anniversary Edition: How to Preach with Great Freedom and Joy

Learn to preach from your soul! What if preachers were as contagiously joyful in their preaching as Louis Armstrong was in his playing and singing? As rich in their sermonic renderings as Sarah Vaughn was in her virtuosic vocals? As honest about heartache as Billie Holiday every time she sang the blues? As alluringly clear as the voice of Ella Fitzgerald? As tenaciously uninhibited in the action of creating as Duke Ellington? This may be too much ask, even of persons who are "called by God....