Pentecost (52)
  1. Before he teaches, Paul grieves. Before he argues, he weeps. Before he explains God’s mysterious purposes, he opens his own heart.
  2. Paul fills the courtroom with questions, but the Christian ultimately answers none of them. God answers them all.
  3. Whether sigh or groan, weeping or loud cry, Christ does not stand aloof from the world’s groaning. He, in fact, enters it.
  4. Being a child, heir, heir of God, and coheir with Christ raises the obvious question, what exactly does the Son of God inherit, which I inherit along with Him?
  5. In a text which struggles with the law, the Jesus you preach this week must be the law fulfiller.
  6. Paul is saying that, in its curbing function or use or purpose, the Law may curb, but it curbs us to death. The Law may indeed instruct, and it will instruct us to death.
  7. You are sinner and saint, dead and alive. Old Adam, New Adam describes the existence of every baptized believer.
  8. Use your tools the way Paul does: To bend your words and thoughts toward magnifying Christ, His grace, His person, and His work. Biblical preaching preaches like the Bible does.
  9. Abraham is not a heroic example for imitation, but a witness to the God who justifies the ungodly by promise!
  10. The Spirit is not the endpoint of the sermon, but the means by which this name is delivered and confessed.
  11. He is Immanuel, God-with-us, and He is with His Church, very present where His name is, very present where His gifts are, and very present where His people are.
  12. Good works, doing good, is not some sort of value-add bonus to the Christian life. Good works are the natural, organic outgrowth of being grafted into the Body of Christ.
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