Essays on Preaching (293)
  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. Our Advent anticipation of the coming of the Savior to liberate us from sin and its wage of death, from the condemnation of God’s Law and the wrath of a loving heavenly Father, is indeed a daring and defiant stance.
  3. Thanksgiving utters a confession of dependence, an acknowledgement of the gift of something not earned or deserved.
  4. Jesus’ "collection of masks" fits Him out for assorted occasions through which He comes into contact with His human creatures.
  5. God seeks us out and desires to give us more than a friendly smile or an understanding look. He seeks us out to embrace us and converse with us.
  6. Trust may risk, but trust produces a sense of assurance letting us rest easy and enjoy peace while it drives us to ventures which may seem dangerous but are possible to do because trust defies the dangers.
  7. The homiletical task of diminishing and debilitating mistrust begins, at every part of preaching, with the preacher.
  8. Undershepherds of our shepherd go rejoicing as sheep among the lambs entrusted to us into God’s everlasting sheep pen, no shabby place to spend forever.
  9. Preaching is the first line of defense and catechetical offensive against these corrosive falsehoods.
  10. What is it to perform the Word? Is it to speak about it, to retell it, to illustrate it, to enlighten it? What?
  11. Let us move beyond the milk and onto solid food — the meat of biblical, creedal, confessional theology in our preaching.
  12. The new life Christ opened for us in His justifying resurrection, the new life into which we were baptized is a life of faith.
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