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Preaching with Spiritual Vigour: Including Lessons from the Life and Practice of Richard Baxter is unavailable, but you can change that!

Two trends are to be avoided in preaching. On the one hand a subjectivism and entertainment orientation for the crutch of popularity; on the other, an intellectualism, a zimmer frame encouraging impressions of depth and thoughtfulness. We need guidance and help for our preaching that doesn't send us skittering down the road of the latest fad adapted from the world. Richard Baxter is regarded as...

grace to help them in their time of need. Such preaching must also be pneumocentric. It is utterly dependent on and deeply conscious of the empowering, transforming, sanctifying work of the Spirit. Without this, there can be no encounter with the living God. Finally, experimental preaching is marked by a concern to stimulate greater godliness in the hearer. Godliness, in all its fullness, is the end goal of such preaching. It aims to bring people nearer to God, give them a deeper and truer knowledge
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