Craft of Preaching

A Mediation on All Saints Sunday Preaching: Saints, Not Super-Christian Heroes

10/29/23

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By John T. Pless

Those who have gone before us in the faith have no more need of absolution, for their baptisms have been brought to completion and they are eternally free from sin and done with death.
Getting Ready to Preach on Reformation Sunday: Gleanings from Has Joachim Iwand

10/21/23

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By John T. Pless

If we take the article of justification out of the center, very soon we will not know why we are evangelical Christians or should remain so.-Hans J. Iwand
Timely Preaching: The Church Year

09/08/23

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By John T. Pless

The church year anchors preaching in God’s historical acts of salvation guarding both the preacher and the hearers from arid rationalism and egocentric flights inward.
Preaching Trinity Sunday

05/27/23

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By John T. Pless

The celebration of Trinity Sunday–the only church festival specifically dedicated to a doctrine–reminds us of the necessity of confessing that the one God exists in three persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Preaching the Resurrection of the Body in the Face of Post-Human Alternatives: Homiletical Thoughts on 1 Corinthians 15

04/08/23

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By John T. Pless

In Christ, God gives us not a posthuman future but a human future in His children through His Son.

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