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Old 02-10-2008, 08:58 PM
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I think it was Spurgeon who once remarked that many preacher try too hard to be like God, for "they are invisible all week and incomprehensible on the Lord's Day."

Someone said, "If you put a giraffe in the pulpit the sheep will starve."
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