Preachers prepare with this fear: 'Am I going to be able to fill the time?' The audience never worries about that.

The issue is: how do you engage the audience? And one of the things I talk to our communicators about is: The outline is great; the stories are great. But how do you engage them? How do you make it feel like we are on a journey, not you are just up there giving me information.

“A warrior never worries about his fear.”

'Dust Devil,' I've never really seen with an American audience, so I'm looking forward to that experience.

Preaching on Sunday mornings is such a simple thing, and by complicating it, I think we all do ourselves and the audience a disservice. It is very simple. Here is the model: Make people feel like they need an answer to a question.

I am an enthusiastic participant in a church, but I have never been particularly concerned with denominational identity.