Essays on Preaching (324)
  1. The Easter season is designed to cultivate our resurrection thinking throughout the year. When God looks at us each day, He sees us through the lens of Christ’s resurrection. We should look at our lives the same way.
  2. We need to hear both law and gospel, and we need to hear them at the right time. Yet, putting this distinction into practice always involves risks.
  3. The empty tomb delivers the grains of life that pollinate all good things so life in its fullest can blossom in our lives because Christ brought life back to us when He rose.
  4. At the Supper Christ established on Maundy Thursday, you receive the fruits of that sacrifice: his body and blood given for you.
  5. Holy Saturday is not silent. It is the King announcing victory in enemy territory.
  6. Christ’s throne is the cross: Crowned with thorns, robed in mockery, surrounded by criminals.
  7. Baptism gives me the life under Father, Son, and Holy Spirit that continues throughout this age and guarantees my life forever with my Creator.
  8. When we stop to think about what is happening at this unique meal, set aside for the people of God, we have to be bowled over and blown away by the splendor of the sacrifice that made the feast possible.
  9. I wrote a sentence in the front of my Prayer Book, a line I still return to often: There is only one Savior of the universe, and you are not it.
  10. This is the second key to the soul care of the preacher: Taking time to be with Jesus and taking time to rest.
  11. Because Christ has already said, “Yes,” on your behalf, you are free, indeed, called to say no...sometimes...
  12. This is the aim of a day of repentance: To come face to face with God and, therefore, face to face with our sin.
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