TOPIC INDEXMinistry of the Church (12)

  1. John 17:1-11 – Easter 7 (A)

    book
    05/15/23
    1 min
    By John W. Hoyum Steven Paulson
    On this episode of Preaching the Text, John Hoyum and Steve Paulson discuss church unity.

  2. That's a Good Question: When is Baptism Not Valid

    book
    08/09/21
    16 mins
    By John W. Hoyum
    Baptism is always valid because no unrighteousness or faithlessness on our part could ify God’s faithfulness.

  3. What Happens When the Gospel Isn’t Threatened

    book
    01/19/21
    11 mins
    By John W. Hoyum
    Has the modern world taken too strong a dose of the gospel as its inheritance from the Reformation?

  4. Luther at Marburg

    book
    10/02/20
    12 mins
    By John W. Hoyum
    Luther's signature insight on the sacraments was that God’s word of promise doesn’t just symbolize an absent reality but that it gives and bestows God’s real favor.

  5. 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.

  6. Law, Gospel, and Politics

    book
    01/13/20
    13 mins
    By John W. Hoyum
    Christians are free to engage in political matters, even as Christians, but the church as an institution has a responsibility not to lobby for specific political ends, however worthy and just they might be.

  7. Christ's Limitless Atonement

    book
    10/14/19
    12 mins
    By John W. Hoyum
    Terror and even hatred of God are the only things with which divine hiddenness can leave us.

  8. 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.

  9. Preaching and Sola Scriptura

    book
    08/08/19
    11 mins
    By John W. Hoyum
    Preaching is simply the verbal bestowal of what Scripture has already given us in written form

  10. Evangelism and the Comfort of Predestination

    book
    07/15/19
    16 mins
    By John W. Hoyum
    Divine election is nothing other than God’s freedom and power to choose, and He has made His word the instrument by which He makes His choice about you.

  11. Church Membership and the Gospel

    book
    04/11/19
    12 mins
    By John W. Hoyum
    Being a member of a church connects people to the whole reason the church has for existing: that we might obtain justifying faith in Jesus Christ through Word and Sacrament.

  12. Preaching the End of the World

    book
    12/11/18
    11 mins
    By John W. Hoyum
    The death and resurrection of our Lord has indeed removed the power of all these things. But they remain for now, even so.