- Collection:
- Isaac R. Clark Memorial Collection
- Title:
- The Anguish of Preaching by Dr. H.C. McEwen, April 30, 1964
- Date of Original:
- 1964-04-30
- Subject:
- African Americans--Religion
Education--Religion
Theology--Study and teaching
Theological seminaries
Lectures and lecturing - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- audiotapes
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Dr. H.C. McEwen lectures on the anguish of preaching. In the lecture he gives reasons why preaching is aguish. One reason is the preacher himself is a sinner preaching to other sinners. He explains the more the preacher knows about God the more he knows himself to be chief among sinners.
00:00:06 Dr. H.C. McEwen talks about how to be at ease in the pulpit. Talks about the Apostle Paul and the foolishness of preaching and its anguish., 00:03:12 Talks about how man is a fool to preach if it is possible to do anything else with fulfillment., 00:03:27 Talks about several reasons that preaching is a thing of agony. In the first place why should one sinner preach to other sinners? No logical reason for it save that he is bidden by his God to preach., 00:10:33 Talks about the vocation that the preacher is called approaches preaching with fear and trembling., 00:11:27 Talks about the joy in preaching. Says there is joy in preaching but the joy of the cross not the joy mans desire for sensual ease and peace., 00:16:43 Prays., 00:17:46 Organ plays., 00:21:24 Prays., 00:21:37 Organ plays., 00:37:15 Audio ends.
The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the National Endowment for Humanities - Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Implementation Project Grant in supporting the processing and digitization of a number of its major archival collections as part of the project: Spreading the Word: Expanding Access to African American Religious Archival Collections at the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library. - Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.117:0022
- Additional Rights Information:
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- Extent:
- 00:37:15
- Original Collection:
- Isaac R. Clark Memorial Collection
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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