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The Big Idea of Biblical Preaching: Connecting the Bible to People is unavailable, but you can change that!

Haddon Robinson has influenced generations of students and preachers through his widely used classic text, Biblical Preaching, in which he shows preachers how to communicate the Bible’s big ideas with precision. But does Robinson’s “big-idea” approach to expository preaching still work in today’s diverse cultures and fast-paced world? The Big Idea of Biblical Preaching presents a strong defense...

As Haddon Robinson’s students will testify, this sort of preaching throws up many challenges, which we will face whether our passage is drawn from the Old or the New Testament. For instance, whatever one’s passage, this kind of preaching requires clear and rigorous thought. As Robinson sometimes says, “Thinking is hard work, and thinking about thinking is even harder work.” The exposition we are talking about requires heavy doses of both. Wrestling ourselves
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