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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...

must engage topics like, Is the Word of God other than the gospel? Is the gospel other than God’s action? If the grammar, movement, and plot of the gospel are not trouble to grace, fallen to redeemed, enslavement to exodus, cross to resurrection, what is it? It is often too easy for teachers and preachers to sidestep these questions. Anglican cleric John Stott raises a point that might contradict our claims. Presumably in response to Karl Barth and others who emphasized the Word as event, and to