In support of expository preaching

Peter Adam has listed fifteen arguments in favor of expository preaching," including this one:

Preaching through the books of the Bible, verse by verse, chapter by chapter, respects and reflects God’s authorship. God did not gives us a book of quotable quotes, nor a dictionary of useful texts, nor an anthology of inspiring ideas. When God caused the Scriptures to be written the medium that he used was that of books of the Bible. If that was good enough for the author it should be good enough for the preacher.

Sounds right to me. The other fourteen are pretty strong too, by the way (HT: The Bluefish).