Essays on Preaching (323)
  1. These poets are gifts of God, and it is only good homiletical stewardship to use them for all they are worth.
  2. Too often sermons are like treadmills: Lots of work that takes us nowhere. Better for your sermon to be like an escalator: Move your people onward and upward in faith.
  3. Preachers, just because there is a placeholder carved out right there in the liturgy which says SERMON, that does not give us license to blather.
  4. If Easter is about Jesus as the prototype of the new creation, then the Ascension is about His enthronement as the One who rules forevermore on Earth as it is in Heaven.
  5. The gathered pilgrims benefit from having a competent, compassionate preacher as a tour guide who can lead them through the wonders of God’s Word.
  6. But what does a preacher do regarding the doctrine of providence when God embarrasses Himself and us by not being present in the way we want Him to be with us?
  7. Dependence on Him, confidence in His mission, begets joy in God and joy in God begets mission, and mission perpetuates joy inasmuch as it arises from gospel impulses over and above the mandate.
  8. More often than not, God’s people in your pews will benefit from having an inkling of where your Lord’s Day journey will take them.
  9. In Christ, God gives us not a posthuman future but a human future in His children through His Son.
  10. Preaching the intensities of Lent and Holy Week’s gospel pericopes means dispensing with romanticized interpretations and allowing the texts to self-present, be they ever so uncomfortable or forceful.
  11. When we celebrate ceremonies like the Palm Sunday procession, faith makes its way more deeply into our bones.
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