Our church plant started meeting regularly on Sundays during COVID. That ages us immediately in most people’s minds. We’re barely toddlers. And you can quickly do the math to deduce that we’ve heard roughly just over 100 sermons together as a congregation.
We value and have had the opportunity to go through the entirety of Ephesians, Colossians, Esther, James, and the Psalms of Ascent (not to mention large swaths of the Gospels and Old Testament narrative).
Yet, of those just-over-100 sermons, we’ve had a couple guests from our parent church preach on texts that were already covered. Our first inclination might have been to encourage preaching from other, untouched texts. We do, after all, long to be a church that preaches, values, and cherishes the whole counsel of God (Acts 20:27).
I’d like to argue, however, that there are reasons to be confident when returning to the same text multiple times.1
1. A Sermon Is Food, Not Entertainment.
The preached Word of God is something we observe not for novelty, but for nourishment. “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God” (Matt. 4:4). The more we feast on God’s Word—even the same text—the better nourished we
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