the essentials pertaining to sound interpretation and exposition (explanation and application). The final product, the sermon, can and must be based on research that is reverent and sound in scholarship. The sermon, as an act of obedience and worship, ought not to wrap shoddy scholarship in a cloak of fervency. Let your sermon be exciting, but let it be in every way faithful to God’s revelation. The chapter is divided into two parts: (1) a guide through the exegetical process itself; (2) some brief