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The Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church, Volume 1: The Biblical Period is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this volume, Hughes Oliphant Old begins his survey of the history of preaching by discussing the roots of the Christian ministry of the Word in the worship of Israel. He then examines the preaching of Christ, the Apostles, and early church leaders.

The stories of God’s faithfulness are repeated again and again. God can be expected to be faithful again and again. The Levitical preachers in their day maintained the ministry of Moses, repeating to each new generation the sacred stories of God’s faithfulness. They saw Moses as the great teacher of the mighty acts of God, and they followed his example in their own ministry. In chapter 6 we find a very good summary of Deuteronomic preaching: “When your son asks you in time to come, ‘What is the meaning
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