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11 mins read|04/10/22On Good Friday, poetic justice is satisfied. Poetic mercy is all which remains.
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15 mins read|04/10/22On this Maundy Thursday, in particular, let the “for you” of Christ’s gifts dominate.
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7 mins read|04/09/22Betrayed. It is a word which chills the soul and sickens the stomach. To be betrayed is to have a friend turn on you, treating you as an enemy.
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11 mins read|04/03/22Passion Week preaching is not simply preaching about the events leading up to Jesus’ crucifixion but to announce to the world how through this single death, sins are answered for, and God is reconciled with humanity.
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10 mins read|04/02/22Preaching the inseparability of Jesus and Jerusalem is to proclaim God’s Messiah and the fulfillment of the Scriptures.
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14 mins read|03/26/22Treating preaching as a battle with the Devil keeps a preacher on the offense and prevents him from being caught off guard.
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17 mins read|03/19/22Belonging to Christ means we have a place where we fit, a resting place where we are at peace because we know our Lord accepts us as His own.
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32 mins read|03/13/22Luther recognized that in the penitential psalms, God gives us the words to cry out to Him in our distress, lament our sins, and confess trust in the promise of His righteousness in which alone is our sure and certain hope.
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14 mins read|03/06/22Perhaps this year we shall see Lent reaching more toward Easter and tethered to the resurrection then the economy-car style tradition which simply terminates in Good Friday.
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17 mins read|02/27/22Lent is a gift to the Church from the Church. It belongs to all Christians who desire to be conformed to the likeness of our Lord.
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14 mins read|02/20/22The dream of what might have been or what could possibly become reality diverts us from the sober assessment and the joyful appreciation of what God is giving us in this hour and this place.
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12 mins read|02/12/22It 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.
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