Essays on Preaching

Forgiveness 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.

The homiletical task of diminishing and debilitating mistrust begins, at every part of preaching, with the preacher.

Undershepherds of our shepherd go rejoicing as sheep among the lambs entrusted to us into God’s everlasting sheep pen, no shabby place to spend forever.

Preaching is the first line of defense and catechetical offensive against these corrosive falsehoods.

What is it to perform the Word? Is it to speak about it, to retell it, to illustrate it, to enlighten it? What?