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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...

her mockery inspired him. It all began when Novikoff was playing in the Pacific Coast League. He stepped up to bat. Esther was in a box seat behind home plate, and she yelled, ‘You big bum! You can’t hit!’ Lou swung on the first pitch and smacked it over the left-field wall for a home run. Fans asked Esther why she berated her husband like that. She patiently explained that she did it to make him mad because ‘when he gets mad, he gets hits.’ Novikoff had a fine year and then went up to the Chicago
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