Essays on Preaching (301)
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. The homiletical task of diminishing and debilitating mistrust begins, at every part of preaching, with the preacher.
  4. 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.
  5. Preaching is the first line of defense and catechetical offensive against these corrosive falsehoods.
  6. What is it to perform the Word? Is it to speak about it, to retell it, to illustrate it, to enlighten it? What?
  7. Let us move beyond the milk and onto solid food — the meat of biblical, creedal, confessional theology in our preaching.
  8. The new life Christ opened for us in His justifying resurrection, the new life into which we were baptized is a life of faith.
  9. Sermons begin with an audience of one, me. But, preaching to oneself is always dangerous.
  10. Here is the foundational cure for the evils of racism in human society, faith in Christ as definitive for racial identification.
  11. Do we honestly believe what we tell our hearers really makes any significant difference in the coming week for them?
  12. The good news is Christ Jesus is faithful to the end, even to the point of death and through death, with a steadfast and vocal faith in God our Savior for those who cannot do so in their lives any longer on account of their altered state.
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