TWO ESSENTIAL INGREDIENTS     

     Dr. Bisagno regularly reminds young pastors that the two missing ingredients
      in much of the preaching today are the apologetic and the application.

      In 1986, the New Orleans Baptist Seminary allowed doctoral student Russell
      M. Barksdale the opportunity to set the precedent of writing his doctoral thesis
      on the preaching of a “still living preacher.”

      After analyzing more than 600 sermons by Dr. Bisagno, Barksdale concluded
      that he is a genuine apologist for the great doctrines of the faith.

      Bisagno’s new book Principle Preaching extols and demonstrates the power
      and priority of application in preaching. “Too many sermons,” he writes, “leave
      me with a great ‘Therefore, what?...’”
                                                                                              

      RESPECTED BY MANY DENOMINATIONS     

      Dr. Bisagno has been honored by his own denomination as president of the
      National Southern Baptist Pastors Conference and nominated by the Texas
      Baptist Standard Paper as one of the 10 most influential Texas Baptists of the
      Century in 2000. He has also been honored by his peers in many other
      denominations as well.

      He has addressed the World Wide Divisional Directors for the Assemblies
      of God Foreign Mission Board and has spoken at a commissioning service
      of 120 new Assemblies of God missionaries in Springfield, Missouri.

      In addition, Dr. Bisagno has been the Sunday morning guest preacher
      in the largest Methodist, Presbyterian, Nazarene, C.M.A., and Episcopal
      churches in Houston, Texas.