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John T. Pless
John T. Pless

  1. Christmas from Below

    book
    12/20/25
    14 mins
    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.

  2. Holy Scripture for the Advent Preacher: Part 2

    book
    12/06/25
    24 mins
    John T. Pless
    The Spirit who inspired the prophets and apostles to put God’s Word into human language has guided and guarded their transmission in the course of human history preserving them for the sake of the Gospel.

  3. Holy Scripture for the Advent Preacher: Part 1

    book
    11/29/25
    21 mins
    John T. Pless
    Lutheran theology begins not with God in His terrifying majesty but with God in the flesh, God crucified for sinners. Advent is about this trajectory.

  4. The Autumn of the Church Year

    book
    11/08/25
    15 mins
    John T. Pless
    Preaching in the autumn of the Church Year reminds us that in the midst of death there is life, for the crucified King has been raised from the grave and all who trust in Him will live with Him in a kingdom which has no end.

  5. Book Review: The Well That Washes What It Shows by Jonathan Linebaugh

    book
    11/01/25
    17 mins
    John T. Pless
    Preachers who take to heart Linebaugh’s work will have a heightened appreciation for how Scripture functions to norm teaching and practice but also the sweetness of the living water that flows from the pure, clear fountain of Israel.

  6. Preaching on the Pastoral Epistles

    book
    08/30/25
    29 mins
    John T. Pless
    In meditating on these sacred texts, pastors will then be equipped for doctrinal preaching that edifies and exhorts God’s holy people in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.

  7. Preaching to Migrants

    book
    07/26/25
    17 mins
    John T. Pless
    The Church does leave her mark on the nations wherein she resides but in many cases the Church survives and outlives the nation.

  8. Preaching Trinity Sunday

    book
    06/07/25
    10 mins
    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.

  9. Reading for Preachers Preparing for Pentecost Sunday

    book
    05/31/25
    25 mins
    John T. Pless
    Happy Pentecost reading as, by the Spirit’s power and promise, you prepare to preach Christ Jesus, the One to whom the Comforter bears witness!

  10. Book Review: Accidental Preacher: A Memoir by Will Willimon

    book
    01/25/25
    18 mins
    John T. Pless
    Willimon is living testimony that there is plenty of humor as well as pathos in being a pastor. This rambunctious Methodist preacher adds ample spice to the homiletical stew he doles out.

  11. It’s Beginning to Sound a Lot Like Christmas: Revisiting Martin Luther’s Christmas Book

    book
    12/21/24
    19 mins
    John T. Pless
    A little time spent with this book might well prompt your imagination and stimulate meditation on the story of Christmas.

  12. Preaching Advent: Some Insights from Hermann Sasse

    book
    11/30/24
    27 mins
    John T. Pless
    Advent is something of a liturgical speed bump that slows us down lest we rush to Christmas but forget that the baby born in Bethlehem will return with glory and power to judge the living and the dead.
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