units. By this he meant that he almost always preached from a paragraph or two at a time. He had missed the nuance of the term. An expository unit is a large or a small portion of Scripture from which a preacher can demonstrate a single spiritual truth with adequate supporting facts or concepts arising within the scope of the text. Preachers can hardly communicate important truths from narratives such as the flood or the prodigal son if they do not cover the entire account.3 Messages from the poetic