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According to Kenton Anderson, professor of homiletics at ACTS Seminaries of Trinity Western University, this volume represents “a powerful tool” because it offers a new (actually old) model of preaching. For centuries, preaching has been shaped from a literary standpoint (i.e., reading, writing, outlining, and displaying sermons), but a premodern method of oral preparation and delivery has...

message fifty-two weeks a year. We find ourselves on a relentless search for material. Everything we read is potential sermon fodder. Every interaction is a potential sermon illustration. Something frustrating happens and we find ourselves quickly inserting it into the week’s sermon outline. We even think to ourselves, “There now. That wasn’t so bad. At least I got some use out of that irritation.” Everything becomes appropriated for the sermon. Every movie is vying for mention. And here’s where
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