differences between my adjacent pericopes. But the fact is that too fine a dicing of passages will often yield similar theologies and applications (and so similar sermons) across weeks. One cannot discern a whole lot of difference between adjacent pericopes that are only a verse or two long (or between red at 680 nm and that at 681 nm). You are safer taking larger chunks of text, as I am prone to do these days after almost a quarter century of preaching. Check out the sizes of the pericopes from