Essays on Preaching (330)
  1. What is implicit by way of accoutrements and ceremonies becomes explicit in the sermon: Beliefs are put to proclamation.
  2. We encounter the triune God in various ways and unexpected places, at countless moments of our daily lives.
  3. Preaching which eschews the harping harangues of legalistic schoolmarms in favor of the Savior’s undeserved favor reflects the holy hilarity of the Gospel.
  4. Jesus 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.
  5. No sermon stands alone because its context is not merely the liturgy, much less an online livestream, but the life together of God’s people.
  6. Through our own repentance and through the repentance of those whose faith struggles we share, we come to know how the Holy Spirit works and how precious our Savior and Lord, Jesus Christ, really is.
  7. The power of the Gospel creates something which was not there before and the result is celebration.
  8. Our God loves to hear the requests, complaints, fears, and laments of His people and to stand by us with His mighty presence in all our days.
  9. People live and move in story, and the effect of story is that it creates distance for them rhetorically which makes the hearer feel safe to explore and cared for by the preacher.
  10. God’s grace embraces us in the same manner as parents’ attachment to their children instinctively causes them to scoop even their misbehaving little ones up into their arms.
  11. The end of the Easter season is a good time to remind ourselves that the Holy Spirit kindly stops by because the Messiah has triumphed over the Murderer.
  12. There is no body of Christ without the Ascension, no answer to prayer without the Ascension, and no guarantee of “truly I am with you always” without the Ascension.
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