Craft of Preaching

Preaching Hope: Theological Reflections on the Last Sundays of the Church Year

11/11/19

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By John T. Pless

It is in the midst of a world marked by empty and deceptive hopes that have broken hearts and lives that we are sent to deliver the promise of a future that has as its last chapter the resurrection of the body to eternal life with the Lamb who was slain but is alive forevermore.
Catechetical Preaching

08/12/19

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By John T. Pless

[Luther's] Catechism is at home in the evangelical pulpit, guiding and shaping what the preacher says so faith might be created and love given direction.
Summer Reading List for Preachers

07/15/19

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By John T. Pless

Good reading is an ingredient for good preaching. Here are a few books –most of them relatively new- which you might want to put on your summer reading list.
- Essays on Preaching
- Sermons
Christmas From Below

12/23/18

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By John T. Pless

Christmas wrecks all attempts to penetrate God's hiddenness and seek him out in Heaven. He comes to us clothed in our humanity.
From Advent to Christmas

12/09/18

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By John T. Pless

Past, present, fututre converge in Advent. The historical coming of the Lord Jesus in the flesh, born of Mary to suffer and die for the world's redemption is indicated by having the Palm Suday account read on the First Sunday in Advent. All of the church year revolves around the cross.

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