Preaching (76)
  1. In a text which struggles with the law, the Jesus you preach this week must be the law fulfiller.
  2. 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.
  3. You are sinner and saint, dead and alive. Old Adam, New Adam describes the existence of every baptized believer.
  4. 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.
  5. Abraham is not a heroic example for imitation, but a witness to the God who justifies the ungodly by promise!
  6. Proclaim the person and work of Jesus Christ for the salvation of your hearer. If it is good enough for the Athanasian Creed, it is good enough for your pulpit.
  7. The Spirit is not the endpoint of the sermon, but the means by which this name is delivered and confessed.
  8. When Peter says to resist him, firm in your faith, he is not sending you out to do battle on your own. He is locating you. You are baptized into Christ.
  9. What ought the Christian to be prepared with, to faithfully, lovingly, and honestly defend the hope they have? The answer is her confidence in salvation which is located outside of herself, in the person and work of Christ.
  10. There is no body of Christ without the Ascension, no answer to prayer without the Ascension, and no guarantee of “truly I am with you always” without the Ascension.
  11. For Peter, growing up looks rather more like growing down.
  12. We are not free from God, we are free in Him, free in Christ, free in the shepherd, free in the door, free in the slave, free in the one who became a slave for me.
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