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Impact Preaching: A Case for the One-Point Expository Sermon is unavailable, but you can change that!

This comprehensive and engaging manual aids preachers in keeping the transformative meaning and impact of the biblical text intact through all hermeneutical and homiletical processes. While this approach applies to all sermon structures, the book focuses on the less familiar one-point expository message rather than the more common three-point sermon, or verse-by-verse approach. Drawing upon the...

The Bible is relevant. Preachers can never do better than the text, but because they are teaching people, they need to make sure their sermons are relevant to their audiences. Preaching is teaching the people the truth of the Scripture, it is not teaching the Scripture. This is not mere semantics. It is a valid distinction with a significant difference. Likely this idea is at the heart of Barth’s use of the phrase “making it relevant.” It is equivalent to “make it comprehensible.”9
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