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Topical Preaching in a Complex World: How to Proclaim Truth and Relevance at the Same Time is unavailable, but you can change that!

Sooner or later, every preacher will come upon a situation where they need to preach a topical sermon. Yet few are taught to preach topically. Even preachers who are gifted in expositing the Scriptures may struggle to deliver a topical sermon that is engaging, culturally relevant, and true to the biblical text. Worse, many pastors worry these messages undermine confidence in the Bible or its...

engage with the various struggles, dilemmas, and hot-button issues that everyday people wrestle with, by providing a biblical and theological response. At its best, topical preaching is not, as poorly caricatured by some, a form of human-centric, self-help sharing of ideas. Rather it simply provides biblical and theologically shaped insight into real issues by addressing them head on. While there can be a danger of forcing issues that the Bible doesn’t deal with back on Scripture, this temptation
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