Wednesday, March 19, 2014
I had the distinct privilege of being Erika's pastor at Christ the Servant Church from 1986-1992, and we have been fast long-distance friends since. She was my best preaching professor ever: I will never forget one Sunday morning when she took me aside after church and told how good that day's sermon was, and how much she enjoyed my engaging preaching style, but then she added that my sermons would be even better if... "when you're done, you should stop talking"! Ahem! Well, my sermons for the past 25 years have been more concise and better, thanks to that. She was so proud of sending me and my little family off to our next pastoral call in Frankfurt, Germany, and there has been no dearer German in my life, ever. "Auf Wiedersehen, lieber Erika!"
