Craft of Preaching

He Doesn’t Make Things Like We’re Used To

01/10/21

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By Robert Kolb

God makes all things new. He refashions us from those turned in upon ourselves, turned to idols of our own choice and making, to experience the freedom He gives by pronouncing us His righteous children.
Silvester and Year’s End in Pandemic

12/27/20

1 min read

By Robert Kolb

As we close out an old year, Saint Silvester can remind us God is the Lord of history and He has used and is using even people whose lives sink largely or totally into obscurity to keep the confession of our faith in Jesus Christ alive.
Be Careful with Imperatives

10/11/20

1 min read

By Robert Kolb

Imperatives are good for many things. Luther said the Law is good, but precisely because it is good, it has become poison and death to the bad. The Law does not give life but evaluates it, and we encounter day in and day out its negative evaluation of us.
Preaching an Awe-fully Mysterious and Wondrous God

09/20/20

1 min read

By Robert Kolb

As long as our illusions of control over storms and germs persist to govern our thinking, we will never be able to take the saving work of Christ as seriously we ought.
Sermons on Hymn Texts

09/13/20

1 min read

By Robert Kolb

The Church's hymns help us see our own world from another—and perhaps not so different—vantage point that illuminates the impact of the work of Christ and the general providing and protecting activity of our Creator in our lives.

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