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Six Errors in Targeting Audiences

Preachers are like archers, aiming the arrows of God’s Word at various consciences at different distances. This article points to six errors that must be avoided in targeting the audience in preaching.

Targeting the 45-Yarder: The Indifferent Unbeliever and Those without Hope

Preachers are like archers, aiming the arrows of God’s Word at various consciences at different distances. What characterizes such preaching that aims at unbelievers and those without hope? This article considers the matter.

Targeting the 35-Yarder: The Open-Conscience Unbeliever

Preachers are like archers, aiming the arrows of the Word of God at various consciences at different distances. What then characterizes preaching that aims at the open-conscience unbeliever? This article discusses the matter.

Ethnocentric Legalism and the Justification of the Individual: Rethinking Some New Perspective Assumptions

According to this article, a shift has occurred in how justification is viewed. The rise of the so-called New Perspective on Paul led to justification being viewed more in corporate terms. What is the place of the individual in Paul's view of justification? Hassler believes that the case that Paul was not really interested in “inner tensions of individual souls and consciences” has been overstated.