"Preaching the GOOD news from the NT would be a better. This just sounds very dark (because it is) this world is dark enough without having to display that subject matter."
Ah-ah-ah! You can't pick & choose what you like & don't like. Doesn't the NT say:
Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil [establish, Romans 3:31].
18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven
You have to use ALL of it, for to leave out or add to Scripture is heresy. That means ALL the Bible. BOTH the OT & NT. Even it's contradictions:
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/jim_meritt/bible-contradictions.html
Incuding all the instances of slavery, adultery, paedophilia, incest, beastiality, murder, you name it, it's in the OT.
So much for it's INERRANCY. The 'Good Book'? More like the EVIL Book:
http://www.modestapparelchristianclothinglydiaofpurpledressescustomsewing.com/which_jots_and_tittles.htm