Emphasis Preaching Journal
My servant, my chosen
Commentary
Often in each church year preachers have to make decisions on topics over which other scholars have argued for centuries. To involve their congregations in retracings of 20 centuries of arcane if still urgent debate is to distract from any possibility of making a biblical point. A biblical point means that hearers are to conceive of living and thinking in different ways than otherwise they would have, and then realizing those ways and thoughts.
