Preparing for Holy Week: Preaching "Choice" in the Texts of Holy Week
Grace is about God’s choice when we cannot by our own reason or strength choose Christ or come to Him.
Preparing for Holy Week: Don’t Forget Satan on Easter
The devil is to be taken seriously, but we should also not give him more credit or more power than he has after being defanged by Christ’s resurrection.
Pandemic Preaching
The people should find their lives in your sermon, and no one’s life is unaffected by the coronavirus right now. It is the very fact that I can make such a blanket statement, free of all caveats, which makes it so necessary for us to preach on it.
The Children’s Sermon: Pitfalls and Pay Dirt
The pastor, then, possesses the prerogative of calling the children to himself, in the stead of Christ and after the manner of Christ, to particularly bless them with the Word.
Lent for All (Part 2)
The Lutheran reform of Lent consisted chiefly in Luther's rejection of works of satisfaction in the sacrament of penance which were traditionally assigned to the penitent during the Lenten season to obtain God's forgiveness. The reform of the sacrament of penance shifted the onus from the "doing" of the penitent (works of satisfaction) to the absolution of God (Word of…