What Is Wrong with Preaching Today?

I signed off yesterday with the question, When did you last pray about preaching? I really do wonder if we pray for preachers maybe only when we happen to be looking for a new one in our own congregation. But preachers don’t just suddenly emerge full-grown when congregations need them. If Luther was right that it’s prayer, meditation, and temptation or testing that makes a man a preacher, then preachers are long in the making, and so this should be a constant prayer burden for us.