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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...

from the Bible is always an easy and simple one, or (2) that the preacher is called to be an expert in all areas of life. We have already noted that the Bible with its grand story provides us with a hermeneutic for understanding ourselves and our world. Lesslie Newbigin rightly encouraged us to indwell the biblical story so that it becomes our default mode amid the challenges and temptations of the many other narratives that our culture offers us. We need to be at home in the biblical story so that
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