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Expository Exultation: Christian Preaching as Worship is unavailable, but you can change that!

John Piper makes a compelling claim in these pages about the purpose of preaching: it is intended not merely as an explanation of the text but also as a means of awakening worship by being worship in and of itself. Christian preaching is a God-appointed miracle aiming to awaken the supernatural seeing, savoring, and showing of the glory of Christ. Distilling over 40 years of experience in...

private discovery in study, and it is true of his public explanation in preaching. The preacher unveils reality for his people by pointing to the very words of Scripture and helping the people see how those words fit together to reveal that reality. This is one of my greatest burdens for preaching today—that preachers point their hearers to the very words of God in Scripture. So many preachers endeavor to talk about biblical realities without making plain
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