I regularly give my seminary students—future preachers and Bible teachers—the following advice: “You can’t take everything from the study to the pulpit or the classroom.” It is easy to agree with such advice in theory; it is much harder to put it into practice. We often get so excited about our exegetical discoveries or insights into a particular biblical text that it can be quite difficult to suppress the natural desire to share all of them with our parishioners and students. Yet the