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The Word Became Fresh: How to Preach from Old Testament Narrative Texts is unavailable, but you can change that!

“I am a bit puzzled over why many Christians seem to think the Old Testament is such a ‘problem.’ I know the usual answers to that, but I can find many of the same ‘difficulties’ with the New Testament. What I am not so puzzled about is why some pastors and teachers are perplexed about expounding Old Testament texts. For nearly two hundred years a skeptical brand of Old Testament criticism has...

criticism is more the current rage; it only wants to answer, ‘How does this text affect me?’ There is no precise or correct meaning but only meanings which arise from within the reader.6 I admit my preoccupation with a writer’s intention is dated. And I really don’t care. It’s hard to get away from the suspicion that someone meant to mean something with a text. Sooner or later folks will recognize that—again. Where? (Context). I have a note from our middle son when he was in middle school. It’s on
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