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Remember when you left seminary or took up your present pastorate, and you were going to set the church aflame with your sound biblical exposition, your sweeping theological insights and your homiletical eloquence? Roger Wagner suggests that maybe it is time to re-examine the preaching of Paul, Peter and Stephen and reconsider what it was in their preaching that not only set the Church aflame but...

you select for the sermon in a manner consistent with the purpose for which they were given by the Holy Spirit. We may not simply go off in search of ‘proof texts’ to support the thesis of our sermon. This requirement makes ‘topical’ preaching (when done properly) even more difficult in some ways than ‘textual’ preaching, contrary to what we might think. Jay Adams has written: Preachers today have no authority for preaching their own notions and opinions; they must ‘preach the Word’—the apostolic
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