Gospel (832)
  1. The problem is not that we are unrepentant. The problem is our contrition is too small.
  2. God invites us to have intimate conversations in a world filled with mockery and hate. To trust Jesus reigns whenever and wherever He extends a word of promise to the displaced and the disfavored, welcoming them home.
  3. Jesus offer us this vision of violence not so we might be drawn into it but so we might be drawn through it to come closer to Him.
  4. If the resurrection were just a repetition of this world, then it would be ridiculous, indeed. But the resurrection is different. It is a world without death.
  5. On All Saints Day, the beatitudes remind us how God in Christ claims people, frail, humble, poor, mourning, and makes them His own.
  6. Faithful celebration of the Reformation is possible only for those who understand they have nothing. Whose incapability and insufficiency are obvious and owned. Who recognize their dependence on God for all things. In other words, Reformation is for children.
  7. If the gospel is promise that means it is essentially relational. It stands that the nature of any promise is that it's only as good as the one who issues it.
  8. I suggest preaching a sermon that directs attention away from the main characters. Instead, highlight for your hearers (and proclaim loudly and clearly) the promise of Jesus in this text.
  9. The law does not end sin, does not make new beings, it only makes matters worse.
  10. This text gives us only a glimpse, a preview, of God’s plan in Christ to restore his broken creation to its physical and social perfection.
  11. The message of forgiveness of sins is and will always be what makes Church, Church.
  12. Imagine what it would be like if, when people in our community thought about this congregation, the first thing that came to mind was how forgiving we are.
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