When Does Effective Preaching Become Possible?

When does effective preaching become possible?

“Dr. Wilbur Chapman has this to say of the handicaps which befall the minister: ‘when trials are many, when burdens are heavy, when tears are blinding, when the heart is almost broken, then, as a rule, ministers come to an experience when effective preaching is possible.'” – William Childs Robinson, The Certainties of the Gospel (Zondervan: 1935), 130.