From an early age, many people become familiar with preaching, yet familiarity can often lead to distraction, indifference, or even resistance. In a culture driven by entertainment and shortened attention spans, many churches have softened or reshaped preaching to appeal to what people want to hear rather than what they need to hear. But Scripture gives a different command. “I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.” (2 Timothy 4:1-4) Paul charged Timothy to “preach the word,” even when people would resist sound doctrine and seek messages that pleased their ears. Biblical preaching is not designed merely to entertain or comfort us, but to confront, correct, and transform us through the truth of God’s Word. In Ezra 6, the people of God learned to value the preaching of the Word, and it produced powerful results in their lives.