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Deep Preaching: Creating Sermons that Go Beyond the Superficial is unavailable, but you can change that!

J. Kent Edwards recalls a story that late pastor J. Vernon McGee told about seeing children in South Africa playing a game of marbles in the dust with real diamonds. The precious stones were being handled with no regard for their true worth. Edwards fears the same thing happens today when preachers offer Scriptural truth to listeners without being completely overwhelmed by its greatness...

As Charles Hodge, the great Princeton theologian wrote, inspiration is “the supernatural influence of the Holy Spirit on selected individuals which rendered them the instruments of God for the infallible communication of his mind and will.”11 The Bible is more than just inspiring literature. It is inspired literature. It is God’s word written. This is why Peter said to the recipients of his second letter that First of all, you should know this: no prophecy of Scripture comes from one’s own interpretation,