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The Challenge of Preaching Today
“The preacher with a humble mind will avoid omissions and additions. He must refuse to manipulate the Biblical text in order to make it more acceptable to our contemporaries. For to attempt to make it more acceptable really means to make ourselves more acceptable in regards to popularity.” – John Stott, In Between Two Worlds
Get A Bible With All The Words
A short clip from John Piper´s sermon “Go, Your Son Will Live” (John 4:43-54), on the importance of using a Bible with all the words (in other words, a word-for-word translation like KJV, NKJV, NASB or ESV, rather than a thought-for-thought translation like NIV, TNIV, or NLT). Why? Although though-for-thought translations are good for devotionals and getting the idea of the text, word-for-word translations cause you to really need to understand it (wrestle with it).
