TOPIC INDEXMartin Luther (19)

  1. Preaching to Those Called to be Consumers

    book
    07/12/20
    17 mins
    By Robert Kolb
    Twenty-first century North American believers face challenges unique in the history of God’s people, for we have an abundance of the material gifts of God unparalleled in human history.

  2. Getting the Word Out—Pastors and People Together

    book
    06/21/20
    17 mins
    By Robert Kolb
    The gift of new life through His death and resurrection, creates Christ’s children, all of whom are being sent with beautiful feet and beautiful tongue and lips to serve as the Lord’s hitmen and midwives.

  3. Preparing for Holy Week: Don’t Forget Satan on Easter

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    03/23/20
    15 mins
    By Robert Kolb
    The devil is to be taken seriously, but we should also not give him more credit or more power than he has after being defanged by Christ’s resurrection.

  4. The Ambivalence of Feelings in Lent and Passion Week

    book
    03/15/20
    14 mins
    By Robert Kolb
    Can we fully experience the joy of the Festival of the Resurrection if we do not seriously stare boldly into the sad state of our own faithlessness to Him who promises to be faithful even when we are not?

  5. Justification as Liberation

    book
    08/26/19
    17 mins
    By Robert Kolb
    This restoration to righteousness that results in our freedom for loving and supporting other people whom God places within our reach takes place, Luther believed, through Christ’s liberating victory over Satan.

  6. Meditating on the Passion (A Forgotten Art: For Preachers and the Entire Congregation)

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    03/24/19
    16 mins
    By Robert Kolb
    Lenten meditation is the one time Luther might advise us to be turning in on ourselves--and taking a cold, honest glance. For only in the shadow of the Cross can we look honsetly into the cause of the death of the man from Nazareth, the second person of the Trinity.

  7. Every Preacher, A Translator

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    08/24/18
    12 mins
    By Robert Kolb
    Prechers translate as a calling. Called by God, they are given a message, and for most of their hearers it is to one degree or another a message in a language from afar, with strange concepts, sometimes with a more familiar ring, sometimes with a strange sound.