"Always go to the bathroom when you have the chance." - King George V

I may have pushed the recovery timetable a little. This afternoon I started laying the 12" vinyl tiles in Fred this afternoon and tonight my back questions the wisdom of that decision.

Pam got her hair cut today. The good news: she had a coupon so it didn't cost much.

I think Bible preaching may be dead, or at least dying. It's not that evangelical pastors don't use the Bible, but that's precisely the problem. They use the Bible in their sermons. They have something to say, probably something good to say, and they use a Bible passage to illustrate and support that point. They start with a topic and use the Bible make that point.

That's not biblical preaching. Biblical preaching starts with the Bible, and the passage under consideration determines the point. The preacher's job is to open up that section and help the people see what the Author is saying.

If the pastor uses Ephesians 1:15-23 to support his point his people will almost certainly have forgotten what those verses say three weeks later. If he's lucky they'll remember his point, but that's a very distant second best. If the pastor preaches from Ephesians 1:15-23, letting those verses determine the content of his sermon (and assuming he does a decent job of preaching it) they'll leave knowing what God is saying and how they should respond to that.
It's the difference between "I've got something you need to know, and the Bible talks about it" and "Look what God says here."

Ipsisima verba.

The very words of God are timeless, transcend culture, and have been transforming lives for millennia. Long after post-modernism has gone the way of modernism before it, and modernity before it (yeah, sociologists actually define those as separate eras) the Word of God will still be here, asking if we're read to listen.
I worry the answer may be, no.