Ministry of the Church

Vocation? What's that?

08/07/20

1 min read

By Troy Neujahr Craig Donofrio John T. Pless

Professor and author John Pless joins Craig and Troy to discuss what God calls us to do in our everyday, ordinary lives. The theological name for this is "the doctrine of vocation," but John helps us to see how this is a practical and grace-centered teaching.
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Proclaiming First Peter (Part 2)

04/20/20

22 mins

By John T. Pless

In this season of a global pandemic, Peter’s little letter is especially potent as he writes to sustain the hope born of Christ’s resurrection in scattered believers whose lives were marked by suffering.
Proclaiming First Peter (Part 1)

04/13/20

20 mins

By John T. Pless

In this season of a global pandemic, Peter’s little letter is especially potent as he writes to sustain the hope born of Christ’s resurrection in scattered believers whose lives were marked by suffering.
Preparing for Holy Week: Reflections on Preaching on Maundy Thursday This Year

04/05/20

15 mins

By John T. Pless

Luther sees in the Lord’s Supper the most concentrated form of the Gospel[5] because in it the death of Christ is proclaimed and the benefits of that saving death are bestowed in His body and blood given us to eat and drink.
Preaching the Penitential Psalms for Lent: Sermon Notes

02/17/20

79 mins

By John T. Pless

John Pless offers thoughts on preaching for your midweek Lent sermons.
Preaching the Penitential Psalms in Lent: Service Notes

02/17/20

7 mins

By John T. Pless

This post contains notes on orders of service, texts, and hymns for your midweek Lent services.
Bright Valley of Love: A Story for Preachers as Advent Turns Toward Christmas

12/23/19

11 mins

By John T. Pless

‘What’s so great about Christmas?” That is the question which the preacher must answer!
Advent Midweek Sermon 3: The Third Article of the Apostles' Creed

12/09/19

11 mins

By John T. Pless

The Holy Spirit is fixated on Jesus and it is the Spirit’s mission to bring us to faith in Him for He is the way, the truth, and the life and no one comes to the Father except through Him.
Revisiting an Overlooked Classic: Franzmann on the Gospel According to Matthew

11/25/19

18 mins

By John T. Pless

Franzmann walks alongside of readers of the Gospel according to Matthew like a sharp-eyed and knowledgeable tour guide pointing out features of the evangelical landscape which invite and provoke deeper reflection and, in turn, cannot but help make preaching more interesting and robust.
Special Advent Series: Preaching the Apostles' Creed in Advent

11/18/19

16 mins

By John T. Pless

Professor John T. Pless has organized an incredible Advent series on the Apostles' Creed for you! Included here are texts, themes, and an order of service for your midweek Advent services.
Preaching Hope: Theological Reflections on the Last Sundays of the Church Year

11/11/19

13 mins

By John T. Pless

It is in the midst of a world marked by empty and deceptive hopes that have broken hearts and lives that we are sent to deliver the promise of a future that has as its last chapter the resurrection of the body to eternal life with the Lamb who was slain but is alive forevermore.
Catechetical Preaching

08/12/19

22 mins

By John T. Pless

[Luther's] Catechism is at home in the evangelical pulpit, guiding and shaping what the preacher says so faith might be created and love given direction.

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