Preaching (191)
  1. What were the “many other words” and how did he “continue to exhort them"? I want to know the details but, perhaps, that is not the point.
  2. God would raise Jesus from the dead. That’s the message that sounded crazy. That’s what made the council believe that the church was filled with madmen.
  3. Jesus is alive! The message will and must always be that Jesus died and rose again. That is the full good news we need.
  4. What does it mean to listen to Jesus? What does it mean to follow Him as He suffers?
  5. Even if the only thing remaining of you is your bones, even if you are dead in sins and trespasses (like Ezekiel’s hearers and all peoples), He can give you life.
  6. Jesus is displaying the works of God which He has for the world so all might see, both physically and especially spiritually, the salvation found only in Christ.
  7. Grace is God’s attitude towards sinners. This is what God’s people had mistaken in the desert.
  8. Faith is never something we have on our own, but it is something God’s Word of promise creates out of nothing.
  9. In Genesis 3, we see at the beginning of biblical history that all our problems started at a tree. Is it any wonder that in God’s infinite beauty He would poetically solve all our problems on another tree?
  10. Seasonally, the text forms a bridge to the ascent of Jesus to Mount Tabor and, ultimately, to Calvary, so we can receive the Gospel of God which saves us.
  11. How can you get a righteousness which exceeds that of the most works obsessed Israelites and Pharisees and scribes?
  12. Doing better is the only way to get those covenant blessings back. Since this is impossible there is seemingly no gospel in this text at all. That is, unless we remove ourselves from the picture.
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