Description: Preaching is as dangerous and as exhilarating as careening down some class IV rapids. It is dangerous because in the Old Testament, God prescribed the death penalty for preaching one's own opinion when called to speak God's Word. The pulpit is no casual or safe place! But preaching is also exhilarating because God places his creative, life-giving word right into your mouth. And though you don't know what will happen next, something that God appointed will definitely happen when you, the preacher, say what God authorizes you to say.
Brief description:
Perry Toso is a Lutheran pastor who has served churches in Montana, San Diego, Scottsdale, Iowa, and Alabama. He now serves a multicultural start-up congregation in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Growing up as a son of Madagascar missionaries, he went back out to Madagascar to teach in a Malagasy church school between college and seminary. He has done three years of doctoral work at Luther seminary, serving for part of that time as Gerhard Forde's teaching assistant.