Preaching (2052)
  1. . Every attempt to gain Heaven by some sort of sin-management system is called to task in this text.
  2. Faith is never something we have on our own, but it is something God’s Word of promise creates out of nothing.
  3. 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!
  4. Matthew encourages us to return to the Word of God, to listen to the promises of God, to hear the ways of His Kingdom, and to let God’s voice guide our work in His world.
  5. Where Sin’s presence corrodes, Christ’s heals. Where Sin multiplies death, Christ overflows with life.
  6. In Genesis 3, we see at the beginning of biblical history that all our problems started at a tree. Is it any wonder that in God’s infinite beauty He would poetically solve all our problems on another tree?
  7. This is the aim of a day of repentance: To come face to face with God and, therefore, face to face with our sin.
  8. The account of the transfiguration of Jesus is indeed about His transfiguration. But, in a way, it is also about the transfiguration of everything else.
  9. Transfiguration looks like one thing. The majesty mockery of Christ’s passion looks like another.
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