Essays on Preaching (66)
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. The Church does leave her mark on the nations wherein she resides but in many cases the Church survives and outlives the nation.
  7. 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!
  8. 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.
  9. A little time spent with this book might well prompt your imagination and stimulate meditation on the story of Christmas.
  10. 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.
  11. The time is always near. The world rages on and in it you have tribulation, it is true. But the One who is standing at the gate has conquered.
  12. Confident in the good and gracious will of God revealed not by reason but by Christ, Christians are free for the vocation of citizenship without nationalistic idolatry.
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