Church Family,

So long as the Lord wills, this Sunday will be a milestone day for us. You will conclude hearing, and I will finish preaching the entire book of Hebrews. We began Hebrews this past September. This Sunday will be our 27th sermon in this book. Praise the Lord for how we have freshly experienced together that “Jesus is Better”!

Featuring the consecutive expository preaching through books of the Bible, as you typically experience in Crestview’s worship gathering, is good for us all. Consider for a moment the blessings linked to diligently working through books of the Bible as we have done with Hebrews:

1. Consecutive expository preaching safeguards God’s agenda against being hijacked by ours.

2. Consecutive expository preaching makes it harder for us to abuse the Bible by reading it out of context.

3. Consecutive expository preaching dilutes the selectivity of the preacher.

4. Consecutive expository preaching keeps the content of the sermon fresh and surprising. There is healthy amazement each week as the congregation and the preacher encounter God in his word. When the text drives the sermon, remarkable discoveries await.

5. Consecutive expository preaching makes for variety in the style of the sermon. The different genres of the Bible (law, narrative, psalm, epistle, etc.) require sermons to be shaped in different ways.

6. Consecutive expository preaching models good nourishing Bible reading for the ordinary believer.

7. Consecutive expository preaching helps us preach the whole Christ from the whole of Scripture. [1]

What’s after Hebrews? We will return to the Psalms for the rest of the summer—looking at a different Psalm each week. Then, Lord willing, we will begin 2 Samuel in September.

For His Glory,

Pastor Thomas

[1] Christopher Ash, The Priority of Preaching (Christian Focus: London, 2010), 111-121.