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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...

through Scripture. How do we listen to Scripture so that we can preach the Bible for all its worth in today’s world? To return to Stott’s characterization of evangelical preaching, the area of application is where the problems surface most clearly, for if the sermon is not aimed anywhere in particular, it is bound to hit it. The possibilities and challenge of application in preaching are summed up in the phrase, “Land the plane!” I owe this provocative metaphor comparing a sermon to flying a plane
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