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9 mins read|12/31/22While 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.
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14 mins read|12/17/22Christmas wrecks all attempts to penetrate God’s hiddenness and seek Him out in Heaven. He comes to us clothed in our humanity.
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26 mins read|11/20/22Whatever 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.
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32 mins read|11/12/22That 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.
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5 mins read|08/20/22The following practices will prove to be beneficial for a preacher’s weekly sermon preparations.
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16 mins read|06/18/22Ethics begins not with our doing, but with the Triune God’s giving.
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11 mins read|05/14/22When 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.
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15 mins read|04/23/22Salutary 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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15 mins read|04/10/22On this Maundy Thursday, in particular, let the “for you” of Christ’s gifts dominate.
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8 mins read|04/10/22Simon carried the cross, but Jesus was carried by the cross to death.
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9 mins read|04/09/22Out there the instincts to protect yourself from embarrassment, ridicule, and rejection can easily overcome you as they did Peter. Our only hope is in Peter’s Lord.
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7 mins read|04/09/22Betrayed. It is a word which chills the soul and sickens the stomach. To be betrayed is to have a friend turn on you, treating you as an enemy.
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