Justin Rossow

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Justin Rossow

Justin Rossow (PhD in Theology and Culture, Concordia Seminary—St. Louis) is the author of Preaching Metaphor: How to Shape Sermons the Shape People and founder of Next Step Press. His book Delight! Discipleship as the Adventure of Loving and Being Loved won the 2020 Best Indie Book Award.

Epistle: Galatians 5:1, 13-25 (Pentecost 3: Series C)

06/19/22

20 mins

Justin Rossow

The question is, how are you going to live out your life as someone who has taken up the Robe of Freedom?
Epistle: Galatians 3:23-4:7 (Pentecost 2: Series C)

06/12/22

21 mins

Justin Rossow

Paul wants us to know the radical identity shift that takes place when you put on Christ. You are free.
Epistle: Acts 2:14a, 22–36 (Holy Trinity: Series C)

06/05/22

15 mins

Justin Rossow

Our daily remembrance of baptism, our daily dying and rising, is a daily joining to Jesus and His death and resurrection for us.
Epistle: Acts 2:1-21 (Pentecost Sunday: Series C)

05/29/22

15 mins

Justin Rossow

How might your preaching of the work of the Spirit expand your own view of the Spirit’s work, and help your hearers gain an appreciation for the Holy Spirit’s activity in their lives beyond a standalone celebration, one day a year?
Epistle: Revelation 1:4-18 (Easter 2: Series C)

04/17/22

20 mins

Justin Rossow

You need an apocalyptic ‘decoder ring’ to figure out what is going on in Revelation.
Epistle: 1 Corinthians 15:19-26 (Easter Sunday: Series C)

04/10/22

20 mins

Justin Rossow

The sacrifice of Jesus stands completed, once for all, and we believe in the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come.
Epistle: Philippians 2:5-11 (Palm Sunday: Series C)

04/03/22

11 mins

Justin Rossow

In the middle of the cosmic, creedal story, Paul places us, you and me, and all of those who belong by faith to Christ.
Epistle: Philippians 3:(4b–7) 8–14 (Lent 5: Series C)

03/26/22

14 mins

Justin Rossow

Paul puts everything he has gained by his religious life and training (verses 4-7) onto the scales opposite life with Christ and finds a real bargain.
Epistle: Hebrews 3:1-6 (Transfiguration: Series C)

02/20/22

10 mins

Justin Rossow

Moses should receive honor, Jesus even more. Moses should be followed, Jesus even more. Moses should be trusted, Jesus most of all and above all else.
Epistle: 1 Corinthians 15: 21-26, 30-42 (Epiphany 7: Series C)

02/12/22

14 mins

Justin Rossow

Death is not the continuation of an adventure; death is being planted in the ground. The adventure belongs to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come.
Epistle: 1 Corinthians 15:1-20 (Epiphany 6: Series C)

02/05/22

26 mins

Justin Rossow

The foundation of the faith Paul wants you to cling to is not an abstract principle, but a human body: the human body of Jesus, that once was a corpse, and now is alive forever more.
Epistle: 1 Corinthians 14:12b-20 (Epiphany 5: Series C)

01/30/22

15 mins

Justin Rossow

Paul imagines a time when we are no longer immature children, seeking to show off spiritually, but instead demonstrating the maturity that comes from edifying others.

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