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19 mins read|09/19/26Hymns were a means by which people were brought into direct contact with the Gospel that brought justifying faith. Set to music, they could readily memorize it, take it home with them, and rehearse its messages around the hearth and at work.
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21 mins read|09/12/26When God’s strong Word is wedded to beautiful human words it makes for a potent one-two punch that fells the Devil and raises the saints.
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17 mins read|09/05/26Sermons begin with an audience of one, me. But, preaching to oneself is always dangerous.
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11 mins read|08/29/26Those first few words from the preacher’s mouth are worth their weight in spun gold.
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16 mins read|08/22/26Instead of an example to chase, preachers preach a Jesus who seeks, finds, and remakes, even as He gives Himself away on the lips of imperfect preachers, Sunday after Sunday.
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17 mins read|08/15/26Twenty-first century North American believers face challenges unique in the history of God’s people, for we have an abundance of the material gifts of God unparalleled in human history.
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32 mins read|08/08/26Other non-Jews received healings, and these miracle-events illustratively preached the Gospel each time. Certainly, Jesus will jump on this opportunity, right? Wrong…at least for the moment.
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11 mins read|08/01/26In Haidt’s findings, we have plenty to learn as preachers who are proclaiming God’s Word to His Body in its varied composition of reds, blues, and other hues.
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14 mins read|07/15/26What is implicit by way of accoutrements and ceremonies becomes explicit in the sermon: Beliefs are put to proclamation.
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14 mins read|07/15/26We encounter the triune God in various ways and unexpected places, at countless moments of our daily lives.
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12 mins read|07/11/26Preaching which eschews the harping harangues of legalistic schoolmarms in favor of the Savior’s undeserved favor reflects the holy hilarity of the Gospel.
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21 mins read|07/04/26Jesus is the ultimate, endearing, and definitive answer to the world’s problems, not any political party or ideology, nor any religion or the combination of the two.
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