Essays on Preaching (15)
  1. At the Supper Christ established on Maundy Thursday, you receive the fruits of that sacrifice: his body and blood given for you.
  2. Holy Saturday is not silent. It is the King announcing victory in enemy territory.
  3. Christ’s throne is the cross: Crowned with thorns, robed in mockery, surrounded by criminals.
  4. This is the aim of a day of repentance: To come face to face with God and, therefore, face to face with our sin.
  5. This is a salutary commemoration of the confession we share, and an opportunity to give thanksgiving to Jesus for choosing this holy man of God to receive, believe, and share the gospel of our salvation!
  6. The sermon that faithfully confesses the conversion of Saint Paul focuses on the converter, the Holy Spirit, and the means He uses to change unbelievers into believers: The Word in all its forms.
  7. For all the things that prompt us to our knees in prayer with thanksgiving, this is the first gift He gives: The blood of Christ that identifies those who pray.
  8. To be a saint of God, one of His own, a child of God, is to have your identity completely swapped, from a child of this age to a child of eternity, from a child of the world to a child of God.
  9. The heart of Reformation Day is God’s great love for His Church, preserving it in spite of man’s sin and weakness, and transforming the world and the hearts and lives of sinners through the proclamation of the Gospel.
  10. Matthew’s gospel speaks the truth in love, and the truth it speaks is the dead and living Lord Jesus exclusively, and all nations, Jews and Gentiles, inclusively.
  11. In His defeat at the hands of our sin and death we are granted victory over sin and death. The location of that victory is the cross. So, we do well to honor it, cherish it, indeed, boast in it.
  12. No matter what direction you choose to go, preach the Word to deliver the Christ!
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