Essays on Preaching (293)
  1. We have the Gospel in Word and the Gospel in Sacrament. Both are poised to declare the peace of the Lord, the good news of God’s forgiveness because of the life, vicarious atonement, and resurrection of Jesus the Son.
  2. Preaching needs to recover the recognition that it is a monumental event, setting forth through proclamation the monumental Gospel.
  3. What kind of shepherd does God provide? The answer, of course, starts and ends with Christ.
  4. Preaching is the vehicle of salvation because God engages in self-giving through the heralding of His Word.
  5. Trusting in Christ’s promise of new life and deliverance pours patience and hope into the way we think and the way we experience life.
  6. Each day gives us occasion to die to our sinful identities of all kinds and to live out a life in Christ’s footsteps as children of God.
  7. Golgotha is the point where not only Mary and John’s family life assumed a new character, but it is the point of orientation for all human community that uses the cross to straighten out the lives of individuals turned in upon themselves.
  8. The cross does not remain on a hill far away. It pursues us into the valleys, the ravines, the crevices in which we get trapped as we wander in search of a fixed point for our lives.
  9. Undue Protestant antipathies toward Mary have muted not only her place in redemption history and its necessary connection to Christology, but also the virtue of virginity.
  10. Trusting in Christ’s promise of new life and deliverance powers our ability to view the world with perceptive sensitivity and, therefore, to treat others fairly in the way we think and the way we experience life.
  11. Is it possible to take a cyber approach to the season of Lent? I do not think so.
  12. Trusting in Christ’s promise of new life and deliverance pours generosity and hospitality into the way we think and the way we experience life.
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