1. No sermon stands alone because its context is not merely the liturgy, much less an online livestream, but the life together of God’s people.
  2. Through our own repentance and through the repentance of those whose faith struggles we share, we come to know how the Holy Spirit works and how precious our Savior and Lord, Jesus Christ, really is.
  3. The power of the Gospel creates something which was not there before and the result is celebration.
  4. Our God loves to hear the requests, complaints, fears, and laments of His people and to stand by us with His mighty presence in all our days.
  5. People live and move in story, and the effect of story is that it creates distance for them rhetorically which makes the hearer feel safe to explore and cared for by the preacher.

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