better psychologists on television. But we can preach the Bible. The danger of preaching the Bible (if there is a danger) is that it’s all about the long-ago and far-away. So people hear sermons and they leave sitting in judgment on Abraham for going down to Egypt or upset with Jonah because he ran away from God and we never get to where the people in the pew are. Good sermons live with that tension. They live with the tension of the Bible and they also live with the tension of being relevant to
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