Bible stories. Usually, of course, you would be preaching from one of the smaller Bible stories. But you need to see your one story (your sermon or lesson text) in the context of the longer narrative that it is part of (which might be the whole book of the Bible it is in). You should not just treat one story in isolation and pull a few moral lessons from it. If you do nothing more than make a few points from a single story and do not see it in its wider context, you might actually miss the whole
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