Pathos in Preaching

“People get used to the same tone or tenor of voice. It is far more effective when a speaker can move from sweetness and sunshine to clouds and thunder! Let the biblical text control you, not your temperament. Learn to communicate ‘loud’ truth as loud; ‘hard’ truth as hard; ‘sweet’ truth as sweet.”   Timothy Keller, "Preaching: Communicating Faith in an Age of Skepticism", p. 186.