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How to Preach & Teach the Old Testament for All Its Worth is unavailable, but you can change that!

Many preachers ignore preaching from the Old Testament because they feel it is outdated in light of the New Testament and difficult to expound. On the other hand, some preachers will preach from the Old Testament frequently but fail to handle it correctly, turning it into moralistic rules or symbolic lessons for our spiritual life. In How to Preach and Teach the Old Testament for All Its Worth,...

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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