Urging preachers to focus our preaching on the redemptive work of Christ, Eswine builds on Chapell’s foundation of the "Fallen-Condition Focus" or FCF (which he argues is primarily "a tool for churched converts"). He extends the paradigm to include the unchurched as well as believers by letting the FCF stand not only for a "Fallen" condition but also Finite, Fragile and Faltering conditions. The FCF highlights the "holes that ravage our human condition," and it becomes the task of the preacher to point to the "grace of the passage" that helps us understand the provision God has made to meet those needs. Eswine then deals with the implications of this approach for structuring sermons.

Given the postmodern attraction to story, Eswine includes a helpful chapter on developing sermons based on biblical narratives. And in a chapter called "Remember Where You’ve Been," he challenges preachers to missional rather than exclusive preaching, which he defines as "a tendency to act as if one must already believe, understand, or agree in order to find a welcome environment to hear the sermon."

In the second major section, Eswine analyzes how the Scripture should shape the sermon. Noting that the Bible is "our primary homiletics textbook," he asserts: "To ask what resources the text provides is to consider how God chose to speak a particular text. The resources God provides in the text normally follow one of at least three basic paradigms. The prophet is the primary paradigm for preachers. But ‘God’s messengers are not all alike.’ God speaks through the prophet, but He also speaks through the sage and the priest in Christ. These diverse means of preaching reveal His homiletic range. Preachers need to lay hold of God’s homiletic range in order to meet the demands of post-everything preaching."

The third major section takes on the "task of cultural engagement and contextualization by letting the sage, priest and prophet mentor us." He reminds us that we all speak "with an accent" that reflects our "expository ethnicity, which refers to the cultural grammar and backtalk that I bring to the biblical text as a local preacher."

Eswine includes a helpful chapter on how to preach biblical war passages in an age of terror—which can prove a particular challenge for unbelievers as well as many believers—along with a chapter on how to deal with the doctrine of hell, a topic many preachers simply avoid in a postmodern culture where the very notion of judgment is rejected out of hand. Additional chapters evaluate dealing with issues of idolatry, preaching as spiritual warfare, and the role of the Holy Spirit in the preaching task.

Preaching to a Post-Everything World not only offers valuable resources and counsel for biblical preaching in the 21st century, it regularly confronts preachers with the probing questions they must ask of themselves and their own ministries if they are to proclaim God’s Word with effectiveness and power today. This is a book that deserves a spot on each preacher’s bookshelf.