{"id":25502,"date":"2021-02-15T08:47:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T08:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/podcasts\/series\/striking-right-tone-in-your-preaching\/"},"modified":"2021-02-15T08:47:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T08:47:00","slug":"striking-right-tone-in-your-preaching","status":"publish","type":"podcasts","link":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/podcasts\/monday-morning-preacher\/striking-right-tone-in-your-preaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Striking the Right Tone in Your Preaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How can pastors improve the tone of their preaching? In this episode, Matt Woodley and Dr. Hershael York, Senior Pastor at Buck Run Baptist Church set the record straight.<\/p>\n\n<p>Tone can be communicated through your pace, pitch, volume, and even body language. Sometimes a person&rsquo;s tone doesn&rsquo;t match the content, of what they&rsquo;d like to convey. 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