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In Excellent Preaching, Craig Bartholomew explains how to preach so that the powerful message of the Bible penetrates the daily lives of your congregation. While we need to be intimately acquainted with Scripture, we also need to understand the context in which we preach. But good contextualization is hard work. Some preach sermons firmly grounded in Scripture, but the message will fall flat if...

for preaching that ushered him into the presence of God. John Stott noted that we need truth on fire in our pulpits. The Word is the means of encounter with the living God, and the sermon is there to facilitate this encounter. We will be returning to the sermon and the preacher throughout. Note that, flowing from what I have said above, the sermon is aimed primarily, although not exclusively, at the hearts of the congregation. I use “heart” here in the sense in which it is used in Old Testament Wisdom
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