The Powerful Word
“The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold on me.” -Martin Luther, quoted in Mark Dever, What Does God Want Of Us Anyway (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2010), 21.
The Burden of the Text
“God gives life through his Word. He created the world through his Word, and he recreates his people through his Word (Gen. 1:3-4; Ezek. 37:1-10; Rom. 10:14-17; 2 Cor. 4:1-6). Therefore, good preaching is nothing more or less than speaking the burden of God’s Word, relying on the Spirit to impress this message into the …