A Brick in the Valley

No sane person wants to sit under preaching that is boring.  So, whenever we encourage people to value expository preaching, we ought to also explain to them why, by definition, expository preaching should not be irrelevant and dull. 

In a sentence, expository preaching should not be boring because it is about showing how God’s timeless truth intersects with life today.  If a particular sermon is just a survey of technical details and a lecture about the Ancient Near East, then that is not expository preaching. 

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