Essays on Preaching (330)
  1. What is it to perform the Word? Is it to speak about it, to retell it, to illustrate it, to enlighten it? What?
  2. Let us move beyond the milk and onto solid food — the meat of biblical, creedal, confessional theology in our preaching.
  3. The new life Christ opened for us in His justifying resurrection, the new life into which we were baptized is a life of faith.
  4. Sermons begin with an audience of one, me. But, preaching to oneself is always dangerous.
  5. Here is the foundational cure for the evils of racism in human society, faith in Christ as definitive for racial identification.
  6. Do we honestly believe what we tell our hearers really makes any significant difference in the coming week for them?
  7. 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.
  8. Accuracy and quality are the preacher’s responsibility. How affective and effective the sermon may be, of course, belongs to the ministry of the Holy Spirit.
  9. Sermon preparation is a way of life, a necessary discipline, and a serious mediation for the man of God, duly called and ordained to herald the royal proclamation of Jesus.
  10. The Christian sermon is Gospel preaching. We only preach the Gospel. Only the Gospel is the sermon, notwithstanding necessary admonishments of law and requisite exhortations toward sanctification.
  11. This is the litmus test for a Christian sermon: Did Christ have to die upon the cross for me to be able to say this and to say it as His very own message?
  12. Whenever Jesus explains the commandments they get harder to keep, not easier.
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