TOPIC INDEXSermons (41)

  1. Proclaiming First Peter (Part 1)

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    04/13/20
    20 mins
    By John T. Pless
    In this season of a global pandemic, Peter’s little letter is especially potent as he writes to sustain the hope born of Christ’s resurrection in scattered believers whose lives were marked by suffering.

  2. Preparing for Holy Week: Reflections on Preaching on Maundy Thursday This Year

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    04/05/20
    15 mins
    By John T. Pless
    Luther sees in the Lord’s Supper the most concentrated form of the Gospel[5] because in it the death of Christ is proclaimed and the benefits of that saving death are bestowed in His body and blood given us to eat and drink.

  3. Preaching the Penitential Psalms for Lent: Sermon Notes

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    02/17/20
    79 mins
    By John T. Pless
    John Pless offers thoughts on preaching for your midweek Lent sermons.

  4. Preaching the Penitential Psalms in Lent: Service Notes

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    02/17/20
    7 mins
    By John T. Pless
    This post contains notes on orders of service, texts, and hymns for your midweek Lent services.

  5. Bright Valley of Love: A Story for Preachers as Advent Turns Toward Christmas

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    12/23/19
    11 mins
    By John T. Pless
    ‘What’s so great about Christmas?” That is the question which the preacher must answer!

  6. Revisiting an Overlooked Classic: Franzmann on the Gospel According to Matthew

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    11/25/19
    18 mins
    By John T. Pless
    Franzmann walks alongside of readers of the Gospel according to Matthew like a sharp-eyed and knowledgeable tour guide pointing out features of the evangelical landscape which invite and provoke deeper reflection and, in turn, cannot but help make preaching more interesting and robust.

  7. Special Advent Series: Preaching the Apostles' Creed in Advent

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    11/18/19
    16 mins
    By John T. Pless
    Professor John T. Pless has organized an incredible Advent series on the Apostles' Creed for you! Included here are texts, themes, and an order of service for your midweek Advent services.

  8. Preaching Hope: Theological Reflections on the Last Sundays of the Church Year

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    11/11/19
    13 mins
    By John T. Pless
    It is in the midst of a world marked by empty and deceptive hopes that have broken hearts and lives that we are sent to deliver the promise of a future that has as its last chapter the resurrection of the body to eternal life with the Lamb who was slain but is alive forevermore.

  9. Catechetical Preaching

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    08/12/19
    22 mins
    By John T. Pless
    [Luther's] Catechism is at home in the evangelical pulpit, guiding and shaping what the preacher says so faith might be created and love given direction.

  10. Summer Reading List for Preachers

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    07/15/19
    9 mins
    By John T. Pless
    Good reading is an ingredient for good preaching. Here are a few books –most of them relatively new- which you might want to put on your summer reading list.

  11. Christmas From Below

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    12/23/18
    8 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.

  12. From Advent to Christmas

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    12/09/18
    22 mins
    By John T. Pless
    Past, present, fututre converge in Advent. The historical coming of the Lord Jesus in the flesh, born of Mary to suffer and die for the world's redemption is indicated by having the Palm Suday account read on the First Sunday in Advent. All of the church year revolves around the cross.
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