Postils and Bullinger’s Decades were model sermon collections that became international bestsellers, popular reading for ministers and literate lay readers alike.10 Despite the challenges in recovering the spoken word through the written word (a challenge to students of the Bible itself), there are many benefits to approaching the message of the reformers through their sermons. These sermons reflect pastoral concerns rather than merely academic ones, and, as in the (mostly homiletic) scriptural exegesis