Preaching: Sensitive and targeted

John Woods  |  Reviews
Date posted:  13 Jul 2026
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Preaching: Sensitive and targeted

APPLY THE WORD: A Practical Guide to Preaching with Application
By Richard Coekin
Evangelical Press. 211 pages. £9.99
ISBN 978 1 783 975 082

Richard Coekin writes about his reasons for writing this book, which include observing applications in sermons that are not carefully rooted in the clear intentions of the Biblical text.

He also makes the fascinating observation: “Over the past few years, I’ve also become a little alarmed by apparent scepticism towards any need to work at application at all, emerging from a well-meaning but problematic claim: ‘The Bible applies itself’.”

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