What Is Expository Preaching?
Has this ever happened to you? You hear someone singing the praises of a particular preacher using words like "world-class expositor." Curious, you look the guy up online, listen to a few sermons, scratch your head, and think, "I would never call that expository...
What Is Expository Preaching?
We don’t all mean the same thing.
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Preacher, Doodle. Doo.
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