Welcome to Mortification of Spin, a casual conversation about things that count with Carl Truman, Todd Pruitt, and Amy Bird.

Mortification of Spin is a weekly podcast from the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.

Let's join this week's conversation.

Thank you. Today's podcast is the first half of our annual panel discussion at Westminster Theological Seminary's preaching conference.

We'll unfortunately have to keep you guessing how it ends for a few weeks.

And just as a follow-up on that, what is your favorite kung fu movie?

I have no concept that there is such a thing.

Oh, well I'm very sorry to hear that.

It should be Enter the Dragon, if you ever asked that one again.

I've never heard of Kung Fu movies.

Okay, David, you're not helping yourself here at this point, so we want to move right along.

Question on preaching the Old Testament, David.

Some years ago I preached to the Book of Judges.

And one of the big challenges I found in the book of judges was, you know, sure,

we want to point to the fact that each judge fails and that points us to the great judge

who doesn't fail, the Lord Jesus Christ. But if you're preaching 20-30 sermons through a book

of the Old Testament like that, how do you avoid just sounding the same week after week after week? How do you keep it fresh

when, you know, the obvious application is, well, Samson failed, but don't worry, Jesus succeeded. How do you

avoid that kind of repetitive tedium in an Old Testament book? Well, one of the tools you're

mentioning in the Old Testament is the typological

fulfillment of Christ and therefore picking up on a key individual and running that through each

week. The Old Testament, though, is it's a lot richer than that. Let me see if I can explain.

...