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The strength of this book is the way in which it integrates serious biblical studies with contemporary homiletics. Many times, a preacher will read a book, rich in homiletical theory, but then struggle to know what to do in practice. This book compromises neither in intellectual depth nor in practical value. It is an almost indispensable resource. Greidanus’ primary concern is for biblical preaching, that the sermon properly exposes the text of Scripture so that the message as it was intended by the Biblical writer be made plain and applied to the present-day needs of hearers. The book achieves that goal by following up its excellent opening section on biblical hermeneutics with a section that describes the specific shape preaching could take for each of the major biblical genres. If you want to understand how to do biblical preaching from the prophets, or the gospels, or the epistles, then this book will help you. Greidanus has done the church a service in these days of cookie-cutter sermons where every presentation comes out sounding the same, regardless of the form of the sermon. The concern, of course, is for more than just the form, but for the particular hermeneutic challenges inherent in each passage. Study this book and let it improve your preaching.
Excerpt: Preachers today are neither Old Testament prophets nor New Testament apostles. Unless one would be guilty of both presumption and anachronism, one must constantly keep in mind the great difference between preachers then and preachers now. Preachers today do not receive their messages directly from God the way the prophets did. Nor can preachers today claim with the apostles that they were "eyewitnesses" (2 Pet. 1:16; cf. Luke 1:2). And yet, provided their sermons are biblical, preachers today may also claim to bring the word of God. (page 7)