This informative resource presents practical ways to reach your listeners with the message of Law and Gospel. It lays out the theology and process of homiletics in an effective goal-malady-means approach. This book attempts to relate the many facets of Christian preaching and its preparation and delivery to an overarching theological principle, namely, that preaching is God's Word in Christ to people. This principle is in the forefront of contemporary Christian thought because of fresh interest in biblical studies, concern for the theology of the church, and new insight into the meaning of...