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32 mins read|11/23/24If I were to stand in the pulpit and tell my pew-sitters to take the tenth leper as their model and be thankful, it would ignore how such thanks truly comes about.
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17 mins read|11/16/24The time is always near. The world rages on and in it you have tribulation, it is true. But the One who is standing at the gate has conquered.
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20 mins read|10/26/24Confident in the good and gracious will of God revealed not by reason but by Christ, Christians are free for the vocation of citizenship without nationalistic idolatry.
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16 mins read|10/20/24Reconciliation with God affirms the worth of our persons, and it banishes the inhibitions and fears, as well as the resentments and desire for revenge, which create gulches between us and those around us.
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18 mins read|10/12/24Forgiveness is ours, Luther continually proclaimed, because Christ has put His claim on our sins and taken them as His own to the Cross and into His tomb.
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19 mins read|10/05/24This restoration to righteousness that results in our freedom for loving and supporting other people whom God places within our reach takes place, Luther believed, through Christ’s liberating victory over Satan.
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15 mins read|09/22/24To be found in Christ is to be found in the One who the angels and archangels and all the company of Heaven praise evermore in their glorious song.
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14 mins read|09/14/24In the final analysis it isn’t a matter of whether you use rhetoric, but how. Inasmuch as your preaching is still public speaking...you’re going to get rhetorical.
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20 mins read|08/30/24This is one of the earliest bits of New Testament literature, and the words of this relative of our Savior are inspired and useful for teaching and reproof, for correction and training in righteousness.
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9 mins read|08/24/24If you find yourself preaching through epistles for multiple weeks, maybe, just maybe, your hearer will find something familiar from last week in what you are talking about this week which piques their interest, and even whets their appetite for what else might be coming.
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15 mins read|08/17/24What does being an undershepherd mean? Do we really want to take on the burdens of being shepherds?
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46 mins read|08/10/24Like the Apostle Paul, Thielicke’s preaching extols the truth that in life and in death, we belong to the Lord.
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