We expect to: • taste coconut in a coconut cake • see a baseball at a baseball game • watch Andy Griffith in the Andy Griffith Show We should, therefore, expect to hear the Bible in biblical preaching. Paul told us to, Preach the Word (2 Timothy 4:2). The Bible, not personal opinions and ideas, should be the source and content of sermons. Unfortunately this isn’t always the case today. Much of modern preaching more closely resembles a comedy routine, political stump speech, or
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