embrace of the Bible—all of it—as the inspired, inerrant, and authoritative Word of God. All of it is for our good. As Paul said to Timothy, “All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable” for us (2 Timothy 3:16, italics added). Fourth, contemporary preaching suffers from an emptying of biblical content. The last point was concerned with passages of Scripture that are never preached, but what about the texts that are preached? Are today’s preachers actually studying for the content of the passage?
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