Preaching (264)
  1. The Son is the rock or, put differently, Jesus is the Temple of God and, therefore, our one true hope, no matter the persecutions or hardships we may endure.
  2. We recognize no race, no wealth, no class, no status, and no demographic. We have no political parties. We have a King.
  3. Peter admonishes every soul baptized into Christ Jesus to strive for the new life by the Spirit, resulting in a radically new morality, the ethic of Christ’s Kingdom. That is the new normal.
  4. Dependence on Him, confidence in His mission, begets joy in God and joy in God begets mission, and mission perpetuates joy inasmuch as it arises from gospel impulses over and above the mandate.
  5. The new life Christ opened for us in His resurrection, the new life into which we were baptized is a life of faith.
  6. This is the account God has been directing to accomplish the recovery of His global Kingdom and reestablish its rule through Christ, in the power of the Holy Spirit.
  7. In prayer, hymns, and readings we hear the great paradox of our faith: Christ is proclaimed the mighty King who reigns, not by way of the so-called “triumphal entry,” but from the cruciform tree of life, the Cross of Calvary.
  8. Preaching the intensities of Lent and Holy Week’s gospel pericopes means dispensing with romanticized interpretations and allowing the texts to self-present, be they ever so uncomfortable or forceful.
  9. Look to the cross of Christ and there we see sin has been executed to death.
  10. The true religious experience of knowing the one and only living God in and through His Christ Jesus, produces true enlightenment.
  11. Christ saves the world even now from judgment and preserves it moment-by-moment for the potential salvation of many and, ultimately, the created order itself.
  12. We know how we stand before God, justified, or made just by Jesus’ blood. But there is a future reality too. We certainly will be saved in His judgment because we are justified.
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