Essays on Preaching (82)
  1. God’s grace embraces us in the same manner as parents’ attachment to their children instinctively causes them to scoop even their misbehaving little ones up into their arms.
  2. The end of the Easter season is a good time to remind ourselves that the Holy Spirit kindly stops by because the Messiah has triumphed over the Murderer.
  3. The Easter season is designed to cultivate our resurrection thinking throughout the year. When God looks at us each day, He sees us through the lens of Christ’s resurrection. We should look at our lives the same way.
  4. We need to hear both law and gospel, and we need to hear them at the right time. Yet, putting this distinction into practice always involves risks.
  5. The empty tomb delivers the grains of life that pollinate all good things so life in its fullest can blossom in our lives because Christ brought life back to us when He rose.
  6. Baptism gives me the life under Father, Son, and Holy Spirit that continues throughout this age and guarantees my life forever with my Creator.
  7. When we stop to think about what is happening at this unique meal, set aside for the people of God, we have to be bowled over and blown away by the splendor of the sacrifice that made the feast possible.
  8. In the spirit of the Magnificat, Mary knew instead that there is but one mediator between God and her, God and us, and he is Christ Jesus.
  9. Jesus’s travel to Egypt reminds us that we are a missionary people, together as we pray and send, individually as God plumps us down in the midst of situations in which he calls on us to give witness to him and to the trust in him that sustains us in daily life.
  10. It is precisely from the cross that the glory of God shines most brightly into our lives, as dark and sinister as Golgotha appears from a sinful distance. Cross trumps crisis.
  11. All sinners hunger for the assurance that Christ did not die in vain but for them.
  12. Who would have expected that God is a God of surprises?
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