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Preaching Christ from Daniel: Foundations for Expository Sermons is unavailable, but you can change that!

In Preaching Christ from Daniel Sidney Greidanus shows preachers and teachers how to prepare expository messages from the six narratives and four visions in the book of Daniel. Using the most up-to-date biblical scholarship, Greidanus addresses foundational issues such as the date of composition, the author(s) and original audience of the book, its overall message and goal, and various ways of...

“The sovereign Lord guides the faithful Daniel and friends to positions of power in Babylon.” This is a good summary of the story, but it fails to capture the message of Daniel 1. What is the message the exiles were to hear through this story? Imagining ourselves in the predicament of these suffering exiles, we hear the message, The sovereign Lord, who guided the faithful Daniel and his friends to positions of power in Babylon, will guide his faithful people even in exile.20 The question now is,
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