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Expository Preaching
Expository Preaching · Intermediate

Preaching in the Power of the Spirit

The preacher does all his work in dependence on the Holy Spirit, who inspired the Word and empowers its preaching, so he prays, speaks with boldness and urgency, and preaches Christ, trusting God alone for the fruit.

The lesson walks through the topic one card at a time. The full study is the complete written article, with its sources.

What you'll learn
1

Why the Word and the Spirit belong together in preaching, and why careful preparation never replaces dependence

2

What Scripture teaches about the Spirit's filling for proclamation, and the guardrails that keep it tied to the written Word

3

How prayer, boldness, and urgency mark Spirit-empowered preaching, from Acts 4 and 2 Timothy 4

4

Why Christ is the center of all preaching, and how Colossians 1:28–29 joins the preacher's labor to God's power

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