Craft of Preaching

I’m Mortified and, If Not, I Must Get to It

01/27/20

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By Robert Kolb

God has placed preachers of His Word in the frontlines of His combat against Satan and all his minions that is fought out on the battlefields of the individual lives of believers.
Siegfried Sack’s Homiletics

01/20/20

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By Robert Kolb

Above all, pastors must aim their preaching at the people God has placed in the care of the pastor rather than airing pious ideas that did not speak to their situations.
Pulpit Envy

01/06/20

1 min read

By Robert Kolb

Our words of proclamation from the pulpit not only bring repentance and comfort, enacting in our hearers an exchange of sinful identity for the identity of God’s child, but also the motivation and fuel for loving others.
Meditating on the Passion (A Forgotten Art: For Preachers and the Entire Congregation)

03/24/19

1 min read

By Robert Kolb

Lenten meditation is the one time Luther might advise us to be turning in on ourselves--and taking a cold, honest glance. For only in the shadow of the Cross can we look honsetly into the cause of the death of the man from Nazareth, the second person of the Trinity.
Johann Gerhard's Homiletics

01/27/19

1 min read

By Robert Kolb

Gerhard's preaching categories ring true of descriptions ring true of the ways in which we attempt to communicate the Gospel in the twenty-first century. His words of advice deserve our attention too.

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