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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...

undergird biblical preaching. We will call them Pages: Page One is trouble as identified in the Bible and Page Two is that trouble in our world. Trouble is whatever leads to death or puts the burden on humans to do something. By contrast, with grace, God accepts that burden in Christ. Page Three is grace in the Bible and Page Four is grace in our world. All biblical preaching can be helpfully analyzed in relation to these four. They are of relatively equal weight (though in faith grace is stronger), hence