Aeration

Posted on September 16, 2025 
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“All the garden experts tell us every weekend that we must give close attention to our soil; dense, compact soil needs to be aerated, it needs oxygen to rejuvenate and to be productive.

Sermons are like soil, they can be dense and compact and need aeration.

Spurgeon called aeration, ‘the windows of the sermon’ and Clifford Warne used to remind us when I was at Moore College, that explanations are like feathers, they  don’t stand up by themselves, they need support. …”

– David Cook shares some wisdom for preaching – at The Expository Preaching Trust.