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Steps to the Sermon: An Eight-Step Plan For Preaching with Confidence (Revised) is unavailable, but you can change that!

In the years since the original publication of Steps to the Sermon in 1963, audiences have become more sophisticated, preachers have learned to adjust their styles to reach today’s media saturated mindset, and sermon styles have shifted from deductive to inductive. In view of these changes Steps to the Sermon has been revised to help preachers communicate to the present generation. It will also...

the passage. No true meaning can be assigned to it until the significance of these historical reflections is known. It is said of Mary and her relation to Joseph, “Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph” (Matt. 1:18). Here is a reflection of first-century Jewish marriage customs. Before the situation can be correctly interpreted, the social customs of the Jews relating to marriage must be understood. Understanding the text itself is at the heart of interpretation. To understand
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