Preaching (57)
  1. Location determines reality, and when you are in Christ, you do not have less condemnation, or delayed condemnation. You just have none.
  2. Resurrection is breaking into darkness. The darkness has not comprehended it, cannot overcome, and cannot hold it back.
  3. The right sermon will connect our present suffering with Christ’s historic suffering as the perfect entree for delivering His work on our behalf.
  4. Faith, the reliance of your hearers in utter dependence on the promise delivered to them by the promise of Christ, is, indeed, a worthy goal of your preaching. But faith is never created by talking about faith!
  5. Where Sin’s presence corrodes, Christ’s heals. Where Sin multiplies death, Christ overflows with life.
  6. This is the aim of a day of repentance: To come face to face with God and, therefore, face to face with our sin.
  7. Transfiguration looks like one thing. The majesty mockery of Christ’s passion looks like another.
  8. This is the heart of Christian theology: The Gospel is the word of the cross, and the word of the cross is the Gospel.
  9. There is good news here for your hearer, good news of belonging.
  10. This is a salutary commemoration of the confession we share, and an opportunity to give thanksgiving to Jesus for choosing this holy man of God to receive, believe, and share the gospel of our salvation!
  11. The brief introduction to the letter stands in marked contrast to the spanking the saints of Corinth will get through the balance of the letter.
  12. The sermon that faithfully confesses the conversion of Saint Paul focuses on the converter, the Holy Spirit, and the means He uses to change unbelievers into believers: The Word in all its forms.
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