Preach all of Jeremiah in two sermons. That was my mission. The second-longest book in the Old Testament (behind Psalms, and, yes, ahead of Isaiah and Genesis), in two sermons. Whew!
Just in case you're ever tackling that task, let me give you a hot tip: J G McConville's Judgment and Promise: An Interpretation of the book of Jeremiah is the *bomb*.
Succinct, meaty, well-written, good engagement with modern scholarship, and he makes a compelling case for the coherence of Jeremiah's prophecy as a whole. It's not just a book for preachers, either.
(Thanks, Dan, for lending it to me!)
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