Letter to Timothy: An Antithetical Sermon

Dear Timothy, Dear Timothy, In my last letter to you I began to discuss with you what a truly Christ-centered sermon actually is. You will recall, I think, that I mentioned, first of all, that a Christ-centered sermon was one which had as its pulse beat the perfect and efficacious atoning sacrifice of our Lord Jesus Christ. This truth must not be tacked on the sermon somewhere -- perhaps at the very end; nor must it be mentioned from time to time in the sermon. It must be the truth from which...