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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...

advancing the Kingdom, and it was the predominant, if not exclusive, method used by the early church. To change the means of communicating God’s truth so radically is to throw the baby out with the bath water. A third response to the crisis of preaching has been much more conservative. Many preachers have remained committed to the concept of biblical expository preaching. They have retained the conviction that preaching is God-ordained, and that in the foolishness of preaching God is pleased to display
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