Craft of Preaching

Siegfried Sack’s Homiletics

01/20/20

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By Robert Kolb

Above all, pastors must aim their preaching at the people God has placed in the care of the pastor rather than airing pious ideas that did not speak to their situations.
Pulpit Envy

01/06/20

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By Robert Kolb

Our words of proclamation from the pulpit not only bring repentance and comfort, enacting in our hearers an exchange of sinful identity for the identity of God’s child, but also the motivation and fuel for loving others.
Meditating on the Passion (A Forgotten Art: For Preachers and the Entire Congregation)

03/24/19

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By Robert Kolb

Lenten meditation is the one time Luther might advise us to be turning in on ourselves--and taking a cold, honest glance. For only in the shadow of the Cross can we look honsetly into the cause of the death of the man from Nazareth, the second person of the Trinity.
Johann Gerhard's Homiletics

01/27/19

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By Robert Kolb

Gerhard's preaching categories ring true of descriptions ring true of the ways in which we attempt to communicate the Gospel in the twenty-first century. His words of advice deserve our attention too.
Preaching on Fear

10/21/18

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By Robert Kolb

In the last two decades U.S. Americans have given way to fear of many things: economic decline, loss of values, limits on our personal rights, to name a few. Too many of us live with some sense of threat and menace hanging over our heads and haunting our hearts.

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