Essays on Preaching

Authentic Proclamation: How Good Pastoring Factors into Good Preaching

01/29/23

16 mins

By John Bombaro

Authentic proclamation, then, is the love of Christ for our souls, which we have seen and experienced through the under-shepherd’s pastoral care put into the words of Christ Himself.
The Preacher's Toolbox: Embracing Your Tortoise: Prayer and Planning Days

01/22/23

12 mins

By Ryan Tinetti

Time devoted to planning, to say nothing of prayer, pays-off in the long run many times over. If ever there was a vocation that need not be in a hurry, it is the cure of souls.
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Book Review: Justification Is for Preaching

12/31/22

9 mins

By John T. Pless

While they speak on various aspects of the preaching task, these essays share a unity in their authors’ commitment to the fact that the preaching of Jesus Christ is not simply motivational, informational, or inspirational; it is the delivery of God’s promise into the ears of those who if left to themselves are deaf to the Creator’s voice.
The Preacher's Toolbox: When the Sermon Flops

12/24/22

13 mins

By Ryan Tinetti

Regardless of why they happen, sermon flops do happen to all of us. So, what should you do next?
Christmas from Below

12/17/22

14 mins

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.
The Preacher's Toolbox:Words Fitly Spoken—Augustine on Style

12/11/22

17 mins

By Ryan Tinetti

Augustine makes plain that the overarching aim of style is not to be showy; it’s to be an instrument of Spirit-led persuasion.
Preaching Advent: Some Insights from Hermann Sasse

12/04/22

27 mins

By 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.
The Preacher's Toolbox: Augustine’s Purposes of Preaching

11/26/22

21 mins

By Ryan Tinetti

Neither attentive note-taking, nor appreciative head-nods, nor even sympathetic tears satisfy the purpose of preaching. Only lives that are changed by the Word working in the hearts of God’s people can do that.
Heads Up: A Primer from Luther for Advent Preaching

11/20/22

26 mins

By John T. Pless

Whatever else may be said of Advent, it is above all devoted to making Christ known as the Lord who condescends to come as Brother to and Savior of sinners.
Epistles: Colossians 1:13-20 (The Last Sunday in the Church Year: Series C)

11/12/22

27 mins

By John Bombaro

The epistle text from Colossians 1 declares how the great drama of redemption and human history ends.
Preaching in the Twilight of the Church Year

11/12/22

32 mins

By John T. Pless

That is the task of preaching in these last weeks of the Church Year, to enable the people given to our care, to praise God from the perspective of the end when our Lord will return in glory bringing us into His Kingdom of glory.
The Preacher's Toolbox: Eugene Peterson on Preaching – The Continuing Conversation

11/05/22

11 mins

By Ryan Tinetti

Peterson would have us see each sermon embedded in the community of the faithful. No sermon stands alone because its context is not merely the liturgy, much less an online livestream, but the life together of God’s people.
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