TOPIC INDEXJesus Christ (8)

  1. Matthew 15:21-28 – Pentecost 12 (A)

    book
    08/14/23
    4 mins
    By John W. Hoyum Steven Paulson
    On this episode of Preaching the Text, John Hoyum and Steve Paulson discuss the story of the Canaanite woman who begs that he heal her daughter.

  2. Becoming Human Again

    book
    04/29/22
    13 mins
    By John W. Hoyum
    What the gospel promises is not escape from our humanity, but resurrection from the dead.

  3. Dominus Mortis

    book
    01/01/21
    9 mins
    By John W. Hoyum
    Perhaps this past year has prompted the recognition that God is not the tame projection of our highest hopes and dreams. Instead, he is the one who uses even his foes to make a point.

  4. Predestination is for Preaching

    book
    09/07/20
    9 mins
    By John W. Hoyum
    Predestination is a promising teaching as Paul teaches it in Romans 8. It’s promising when Christ and his work for us are held firmly in hand.

  5. Where All Men Are At Home

    book
    12/23/19
    11 mins
    By John W. Hoyum
    Christmas is, therefore, the beginning of Christ’s earthly ministry, even while he awaits a number of years to gather his disciples and inaugurate his preaching of the kingdom.

  6. What Does this Mean: Union with Christ

    book
    10/07/19
    13 mins
    By John W. Hoyum
    Christ’s indwelling in the Christian must be tied relentlessly to these external and objective events of God’s own action.

  7. Theology and Philosophy: In Conversation with Robert Jenson

    book
    09/30/19
    15 mins
    By John W. Hoyum
    Theology is not to simply adopt the positions and presuppositions of philosophy, nor should it reject philosophy.

  8. Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Theology of the Cross

    book
    06/21/19
    13 mins
    By John W. Hoyum
    I’d like to offer a short reflection on the theme of “worldliness” as it appears in his later work and how that’s connected to an item of his Lutheran heritage: the theology of the cross.