Emphasis Preaching Journal

There is the old story of an old time preacher who told his congregation that he was going to preach on Noah and the Ark the next Sunday. A couple of mischievous boys decided to liven things up a bit and slipped into the church during the week and glued two pages of the Bible together. The following Sunday the preacher began to read: "Noah took himself a wife and she was ..." and then he turned the page and continued reading, "... 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide and 30 cubits high." The preacher paused, and reread the passage to himself again.