Preaching

Timely Preaching: The Church Year

09/08/23

32 mins

By John T. Pless

The church year anchors preaching in God’s historical acts of salvation guarding both the preacher and the hearers from arid rationalism and egocentric flights inward.
Preaching the Resurrection of the Body in the Face of Post-Human Alternatives: Homiletical Thoughts on 1 Corinthians 15

04/08/23

10 mins

By John T. Pless

In Christ, God gives us not a posthuman future but a human future in His children through His Son.
Book Review: Justification Is for Preaching

12/31/22

9 mins

By John T. Pless

While they speak on various aspects of the preaching task, these essays share a unity in their authors’ commitment to the fact that the preaching of Jesus Christ is not simply motivational, informational, or inspirational; it is the delivery of God’s promise into the ears of those who if left to themselves are deaf to the Creator’s voice.
Christmas from Below

12/17/22

14 mins

By John T. Pless

Christmas wrecks all attempts to penetrate God’s hiddenness and seek Him out in Heaven. He comes to us clothed in our humanity.
Preaching Advent: Some Insights from Hermann Sasse

12/04/22

27 mins

By John T. Pless

Advent is something of a liturgical speed bump that slows us down lest we rush to Christmas but forget that the baby born in Bethlehem will return with glory and power to judge the living and the dead.
Heads Up: A Primer from Luther for Advent Preaching

11/20/22

26 mins

By John T. Pless

Whatever else may be said of Advent, it is above all devoted to making Christ known as the Lord who condescends to come as Brother to and Savior of sinners.
Preaching in the Twilight of the Church Year

11/12/22

32 mins

By John T. Pless

That is the task of preaching in these last weeks of the Church Year, to enable the people given to our care, to praise God from the perspective of the end when our Lord will return in glory bringing us into His Kingdom of glory.
Remembering the Dead: Preparing to Preach on All Saints Sunday

10/29/22

12 mins

By John T. Pless

We give thanks to the Lord for His victory over death and the grave both for those who are now with Him in glory and for ourselves even as we press forward in faithfulness awaiting the Day when our eyes will see Him.
Preparing to Preach: Five Keys for the Preacher's Weekly Sermon Preparations

08/20/22

5 mins

By John T. Pless

The following practices will prove to be beneficial for a preacher’s weekly sermon preparations.
Preaching on Ethics

06/18/22

16 mins

By John T. Pless

Ethics begins not with our doing, but with the Triune God’s giving.
Book Review: "The Word of the Cross: Reading Paul" by Jonathan Linebaugh

05/14/22

11 mins

By John T. Pless

When Luther was in the pulpit, he was teaching, and when he was in the lecture hall at the podium, he was preaching. Linebaugh’s outstanding book will help contemporary pastors to do the same.
Funeral Preaching

04/23/22

15 mins

By John T. Pless

Salutary funeral preaching seeks to set the life of the baptized believer who has died within the life of Christ incarnate, crucified, risen, and reigning.

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