Essays on Preaching (66)
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Like the Apostle Paul, Thielicke’s preaching extols the truth that in life and in death, we belong to the Lord.
  5. Because Immanuel is with us, we can pray with boldness and confidence, that is, with the courage born of faith.
  6. It might be said of Thielicke’s preaching of the parables, he does not throw sticks of dynamite, but sets little time bombs which explode, sometimes in unexpected ways, in the minds and hearts of those who hear him.
  7. Helmut Thielicke had lived on the borderline between life and death enduring a life-threatening illness in his youth and confronting the perpetually present carnage of World War Two. He ministered to a skeptical generation that teetered on the borderline between faith and unbelief.
  8. Long does not see the parables as riddles to be explained, but truth of God’s Kingdom to be proclaimed.
  9. There are some commentaries preachers ought not be without. One of those is Mark Seifrid's commentary on 2 Corinthians!
  10. As Christians, we are given another future. It is not a posthuman epic, but a future given us in the resurrection of the One who is both God and man from the dead, our Lord Jesus Christ.
  11. Using Easter means the peace of Christ is to be preached into the conscience of those held captive by sin and death.
  12. Behind the preacher stands Christ Jesus. Preachers listen to Jesus so that, in turn, they may preach Him, and their congregations may hear the voice of the Good Shepherd from the mouths of their pastors.
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