Essays on Preaching (301)
  1. Grace is about God’s choice when we cannot by our own reason or strength choose Christ or come to Him.
  2. Luther sees in the Lord’s Supper the most concentrated form of the Gospel[5] because in it the death of Christ is proclaimed and the benefits of that saving death are bestowed in His body and blood given us to eat and drink.
  3. The devil is to be taken seriously, but we should also not give him more credit or more power than he has after being defanged by Christ’s resurrection.
  4. The people should find their lives in your sermon, and no one’s life is unaffected by the coronavirus right now. It is the very fact that I can make such a blanket statement, free of all caveats, which makes it so necessary for us to preach on it.
  5. John Pless offers thoughts on preaching for your midweek Lent sermons.
  6. This post contains notes on orders of service, texts, and hymns for your midweek Lent services.
  7. God has placed preachers of His Word in the frontlines of His combat against Satan and all his minions that is fought out on the battlefields of the individual lives of believers.
  8. Above all, pastors must aim their preaching at the people God has placed in the care of the pastor rather than airing pious ideas that did not speak to their situations.
  9. The goal of Arrangement is to make the proclamation of the Gospel clearer and more compelling for your hearers.
  10. Our words of proclamation from the pulpit not only bring repentance and comfort, enacting in our hearers an exchange of sinful identity for the identity of God’s child, but also the motivation and fuel for loving others.
  11. ‘What’s so great about Christmas?” That is the question which the preacher must answer!
  12. This is the key to understanding missions and preaching: It is His mission, His message. Christ commissions only His Kingdom of God message to be preached, period. You are not at liberty.
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