Application in Sermons: a tendency toward "law"

This was a good reminder from Out of the Horse's Mouth about preaching, and the "application" part of a sermon.

So when people clamor for more application in preaching, they are usually asking for more “law.” That is not necessarily wrong. It may well be that the preaching they hear is ignoring biblical exhortations or restricting the use of the law to its first use. Yet in other cases, it may be a reflection of the fact that by nature we gravitate toward the law rather than the gospel.

http://www.whitehorseinn.org/blog/2012/02/15/application-in-sermons/