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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