Preaching (207)
  1. Jesus can ferret out the difference between the darnel/weeds and the wheat. It is on the threshing floor of Calvary where that work is done. There, the wheat and the chaff are separated.
  2. Just like you cannot stop the rain by shouting, so you cannot stop the plans of God from coming down.
  3. This peace from Christ was bought with no less strife or warfare than what earthly peace is won with.
  4. Who would not want to see the exiles return and the temple restored? Unfortunately, God calls Jeremiah to be the bearer of bad news.
  5. God knows he is struggling, yet the struggle does not nullify God’s gracious love for him.
  6. Just as God on “Eagles’ wings” miraculously provided manna and water and life by His Word to Israel in the desert, so Jesus gather’s His Church as a hen would to give of Himself like the pelican to us in our journey through life in this Pentecost season of the Church Year.
  7. The power of the Gospel creates something which was not there before and the result is celebration.
  8. Hosea also portrays God in a very intimate and husbandly way, reaching out to the one He loves when love is abused and lost.
  9. God, through the mystery of Trinity, is at work in the act of creation. Every person of the Trinity participated in creation.
  10. People live and move in story, and the effect of story is that it creates distance for them rhetorically which makes the hearer feel safe to explore and cared for by the preacher.
  11. What Moses suffered in a limited way Christ actually endured fully on our behalf!
  12. “Rolling the dice” or rather “casting lots” has an interesting place in the life of the Church from the Bible.
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