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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...

that God is by no means confined to speaking through Scripture.14 He can speak through dreams, through nature, in our experiences, and so on. Where he so speaks, we do well to attend to him! However, as Barth observes, within the Church God’s ordained means to speak is the Bible, the canon of holy Scripture, and all extrabiblical “speakings” must always be tested alongside Scripture. Within the church Scripture must be read, listened to, and preached, for only thus can we hope to be addressed by
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