Paul's skill at taking the poets, altars and ideas a city already holds and steeping them in the gospel — meeting a culture where its own thinking runs out.
1 Peter 1:15-23, from a preacher who reduces the morning to two Hebrew words — Yare Yahweh, our God is awesome.
1 Kings 3:5-15. Offered anything, Solomon asks for a discerning heart to govern — and God is pleased by what he did not ask for.
Philip and the Ethiopian in Acts 8:26-40 — God sends someone to explain the text to a man already reading it.
Proverbs 9 on wisdom, opening the new year with the reminder that the morning is less about what the preacher says than about what God intends to do.
Proverbs 8 and wisdom calling out in the street. One point only: take the call, and be still enough in a crowded season to hear it.