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The Four Pages of the Sermon, Revised and Updated: A Guide to Biblical Preaching is unavailable, but you can change that!

Doing justice to the complexity of the preaching task and the questions that underlie it, author Paul Scott Wilson organizes both the preparation and the content of the sermon around its "four pages." Each "page" addresses a different theological and creative component of what happens in any sermon. Page One presents the trouble or conflict that takes place in or that underscores the biblical...

above terms nonetheless give a sense of the complexity and richness of God’s bifocal Word. The terms “trouble and grace” avoid historical baggage that comes with some of the above terms. Here are simple working definitions to remember: Trouble puts the burden on humanity to do something. Grace looks to God who shoulders the burden and has accepted us in Christ. Trouble and grace, or law and gospel, are not strict opposites or binary alternatives. They overlap. Both are good. The law is good not only