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"This little book is written for ordinary ministers who preach regularly to ordinary people in ordinary places... Most of us preach in gatherings that are smaller than we would wish and tougher than we might have hoped when we entered pastoral ministry... There is a voice on our shoulders who whispers as we prepare, and then as we preach, ‘Is it really worth it?"—From the Introduction. ...

to loyalty to the LORD, Moses suddenly slips in, ‘And you are to love those who are aliens, for you yourselves were aliens in Egypt.’ We might paraphrase this, ‘and by the way, love the outsider, for you were outsiders living in a land of slavery and the LORD redeemed you. You received grace; be people of overflowing grace to others.’ We see this illustrated in Deuteronomy 15:7–11, where the underlying logic is this: God has given you the land generously, and so you must be generous in sharing with
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