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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...

so before he speaks? Because God’s holiness must impress God’s people if they are to revere God’s law. The majesty of God nurtures the fear of God, and so Yahweh ‘wastes’ a whole chapter getting the people prepared to receive his law. Our second observation can be a question: What is significant about the fact that God’s law is not given until chapters 19 and following? Why are there 18 chapters of ‘deliverance’ before 5 chapters of ‘law’? Exodus is simply giving us the good news: always remember
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