Proclamation (183)
  1. Passion Week preaching is not simply preaching about the events leading up to Jesus’ crucifixion but to announce to the world how through this single death, sins are answered for, and God is reconciled with humanity.
  2. God saves us through people. He saves us through means. He puts a voice on the gospel.
  3. Justification and regeneration are, therefore, necessarily connected and have profound implications upon the craft of preaching.
  4. In preaching, auditors are informed and instructed on hearing the voice of the Other, not themselves or contemporary resonances.
  5. “God in general” is of little use to all of us suffering the ravages of sin, the fear of death, and satanic prosecution.
  6. What is it to perform the Word? Is it to speak about it, to retell it, to illustrate it, to enlighten it? What?
  7. This is the second installment in our series profiling women in the Bible (Who are not named Ruth or Esther). Both the stories of Ruth and Esther are beautiful, gracious, and profound. We love reading and rereading them. However, in an attempt to bring attention to more stories of more women throughout the Scriptures, we choose now to shift our focus.
  8. . . . to which Jesus answers, "Why? What have you heard?" Jesus challenges all the doubts about Himself and demands we believe in who He truly is.
  9. Do we honestly believe what we tell our hearers really makes any significant difference in the coming week for them?
  10. Ascertaining the what and how of the Church greatly factor into the very purpose of the Church, that is, they essentially answer the question why the Church?
  11. Questions of our purpose and significance as a church abound with fewer and fewer people in the pews.
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