Biblical preaching has a long tradition. One representative is nineteenth-century Swiss theologian J. J. Van Oosterzee. He argued that the sermon must adhere to the Bible: “With the highest justice is the demand made, in the first place, upon the subject-matter of the Sermon, that it be Biblical, i.e., that the Sermon attach itself to a text of Holy Writ, explain and develop the contents thereof, and be entirely penetrated and charged with the pure spirit of the Scriptures.…”25 2. Preachers need