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Famine in the Land: A Passionate Call for Expository Preaching is unavailable, but you can change that!

Is your congregation starving? There's a spiritual famine in the land—a shortage of faithful preaching leaving those in the pews dangerously undernourished. We need people today who will preach like the prophets and apostles did, proclaiming the word of God with courage and conviction. Famine in the Land, a compilation and adaptation of four powerful journal articles by Steven Lawson, makes a...

preaching? We are hard pressed to find a better definition than the one given by J. I. Packer in God Has Spoken: “The true idea of preaching is that the preacher should become a mouthpiece for his text, opening it up and applying it as a word from God to his hearers, talking only in order that the text itself may speak and be heard.” Packer noted that the preacher must “[make] each point from his text in such a manner that” [quoting from the Westminster dictionary] “the hearers may discern how God teacheth