Preaching Difficult Texts of the Old Testament
Murawski, Bryan As the apostle Paul wrote to his young apprentice pastor, "All Scripture is breathed out by Go and profitable for teaching" (2 Timothy 3:16). Really? Every book, every chapter, every verse? Even in the Old Testament? There are a number of reasons why a biblical text is difficult to preach. Sometimes the genre itself proves challenging -- such as the law ("Don't cook a young goat in its mother's milk"), genealogy ("The sons of Izhar: Korah and ...