Like clouds and wind without rain is one who boasts of gifts never given.
The introduction to a sermon can prove very important, especially if promises are made at the beginning - "Tonight we are going to explore the subject of fasting" "I am going to be brief" "I have three points" "I'm going to explain to you how to be saved". There is nothing wrong with making such promises at the outset - with just one proviso. That proviso is that you do what you say you are going to do. At the beginning of such a sermon, you are boasting of the gifts you are going to give - thoroughness, brevity, three points, simplicity or whatever. If you fail to give what you promise, your congregation are like people looking to the sky and seeing clouds and feeling the wind and so are convinced it is going to rain. If it doesn't rain they will be disappointed. Don't do that to them.
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