Essays on Preaching (84)
  1. The world’s history and Jewish history was like a story in search of an ending; and when Jesus rose from the dead the ending was now revealed.
  2. We have the Gospel in Word and the Gospel in Sacrament. Both are poised to declare the peace of the Lord, the good news of God’s forgiveness because of the life, vicarious atonement, and resurrection of Jesus the Son.
  3. Preaching needs to recover the recognition that it is a monumental event, setting forth through proclamation the monumental Gospel.
  4. What kind of shepherd does God provide? The answer, of course, starts and ends with Christ.
  5. Preaching is the vehicle of salvation because God engages in self-giving through the heralding of His Word.
  6. Undue Protestant antipathies toward Mary have muted not only her place in redemption history and its necessary connection to Christology, but also the virtue of virginity.
  7. Is it possible to take a cyber approach to the season of Lent? I do not think so.
  8. The season of Lent gives almost unparalleled opportunity for preachers to placard before their auditors the Cross of Christ and beckon Christians to take up their cross and follow Him.
  9. Rituals resist domestication and confront us with a world and worldview brought forth from the Bible and through twenty centuries of Christianity for the purpose of arresting our contemporary worldview through its self-sameness.
  10. The incarnate Son of God makes ordinary events extraordinary by making them events that factor into our salvation.
  11. Faithful preachers should remain steadfast in the biblical categories and terminology and preach the reality of death.
  12. In the pursuit of democratizing the worship experience, we go from hearing the voice of God to hearing voices and in some cases hearing our own voice!
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