{"product_id":"deep-preaching-creating-sermons-that-go-beyond-the-superficial","title":"Deep Preaching: Creating Sermons that Go Beyond the Superficial","description":"J. Kent Edwards recalls a story that late pastor J. Vernon McGee told about seeing children in South Africa playing a game of marbles in the dust with real diamonds. The precious stones were being handled with no regard for their true worth. Edwards fears the same thing happens today when preachers offer Scriptural truth to listeners without being completely overwhelmed by its greatness themselves in the process.\nDeep Preaching is his call to \"rethink\" preaching. Edwards helps preachers learn to preach the word in ways that will powerfully change the lives of hearers. He contends that sermons \"need not settle comfortably on the lives of the listeners like dust on a coffee table.\" He encourages preachers to join him in casting off the lines that moor their ministries to the status-quo and make every effort to steer their preaching out of the \"comfortable shallows.\" He urges them to preach deep sermons rather than superficial ones, moving \"beyond the yawn-inspiring to the awe-inspiring, from the trite to the transforming.\"\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0805446958\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: RDV.0805446958.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Edwards, J. Kent\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This book is in excellent condition. There may be minimal writing on the inside cover or cover page. Cover image on the book may vary from photo. Ships out quickly in a secure plastic mailer.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Reliant Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47975948910769,"sku":"RDV.0805446958.VG","price":26.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0544\/8872\/7729\/files\/0805446958-0.jpg?v=1790312324","url":"https:\/\/www.reliantbookstore.com\/products\/deep-preaching-creating-sermons-that-go-beyond-the-superficial","provider":"Reliant Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}