The churches of the West are currently in confusion about the way to make preaching spiritually significant for the modern congregation, and are treating the problem as primarily one of devising appropriate techniques. Technique is, of course, necessary in preaching.… But the Puritans themselves would be the first to insist that there is more to significant preaching than mere technique, even applicatory technique.3 Packer then concludes by quoting Richard Baxter: ‘All our work must be done spiritually,