exegesis

Exegetical. Theological. Homiletical. Dating.

What do these words have in common? Well, pretty much nothing, at least you’d think so—if you’ve even heard of all four words.

The first three words (in that order) form a tool I learned in preaching class to take a passage of the Bible and make it into a spot-on sermon. The last word, well, they didn’t talk about that much in seminary, even though we did.