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I was very happy with the exegesis of the passage. You draw from various sources and are sensitive to modern criticism. 

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Your resource is outstanding!  Tell me what I need to do to get them weekly. 

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Your choice of illustrations seems to fit very well with my own need to avoid the pat answers or over-obvious "moral of the story" of the text, and instead seek to find the insightful heart of the text in ways that touch and involve the hearer.

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