-04 July 11

Unless there's a power glitch, isn't this a significant accretion of barnacles (e.g., sermons, commentaries, etc) that must eventually be scraped from our many Protestant hulls? (E.g., In some cases there is a single significant doctrine with 10+ different sermon definitions.)

Also, whatever happened to Luther's teaching on private interpretation? How is this even possible today with 1000s of good online sermons, instantly beamed to our hand-helds, which, however, constantly distract us from the study of the biblical text -- black-letters-on-white-page -- alone?

How can these collections of fine conservative sermons, ultimately, be in compliance with Sola Scriptura? Perhaps listeners are conservative now, but -- by-and-by -- by listening to these sermons instead of reading the Bible only, won't many of these listeners -- who, through laziness, have departed from reading the Pure Text alone -- inadvertently end in the liberal dust bin of history?