Craft of Preaching

Battling the Devil

03/26/22

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By Jacob Corzine

Treating preaching as a battle with the Devil keeps a preacher on the offense and prevents him from being caught off guard.
Preaching Perfection

06/13/21

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By Jacob Corzine

Whenever Jesus explains the commandments they get harder to keep, not easier.
Pandemic Preaching

03/20/20

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By Jacob Corzine

The people should find their lives in your sermon, and no one’s life is unaffected by the coronavirus right now. It is the very fact that I can make such a blanket statement, free of all caveats, which makes it so necessary for us to preach on it.
Original Sin and Actual Sins

08/05/19

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By Jacob Corzine

As I weigh briefly here the advantages and disadvantages of preaching original sin and preaching actual sin, I don’t mean to argue for one and against the other. Instead, I mean to suggest a benefit in focusing a given sermon on one or the other, and that neither type of sermon should be the only type a Christian hears.
The Law and the Already Terrified Conscience

03/31/19

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By Jacob Corzine

Where contrition is evident, the conscience has already been prodded, piqued, finally terrified. More Law only serves to confirm the lie this person is already at risk of believing: that the last work of the conscience is also God’s last word. But God’s last word is the word of absolution, not the confirmation of the conscience’s testimony, but now its contradiction.

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