What Happened to Expository Preaching

I had just heard this message the other morning on 910a.m. It it great, it brings out everything I enjoy about expository sermons and their importance for maturing Christ followers. Now I came across a link to the audio at "Symphony of Scripture". Follow the link below to here the message.

"Alistair Begg on Expository Preaching"

Here's an excerpt:

“We’ve become very familiar with preaching that, pays scant attention to the Bible; is self-focused; and is consequently only capable of making the most superficial impact upon the lives of the listeners. This would be bad enough were it not for the fact, that large sections of the church who listen to this kind of stuff are actually oblivious to the fact that what they’re getting is a placebo rather than the real medicine. And therefore they leave satisfied with the feeling that it has done them some good. A feeling which disguises the gravity of the situation… They get bloated up by all this stuff, and it gives them the feeling that somehow or another they’ve had a meal, but after a few hours they say, ‘You know, I don’t know whether that thing did anything at all…’ And so, in the absence of bread the population grows accustom to cake.”