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11 mins read|04/03/22In the middle of the cosmic, creedal story, Paul places us, you and me, and all of those who belong by faith to Christ.
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10 mins read|04/02/22Preaching the inseparability of Jesus and Jerusalem is to proclaim God’s Messiah and the fulfillment of the Scriptures.
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16 mins read|03/30/22What grace is this? It’s grace from Christ, who often seizes us when we least expect it, even through the hands of His enemies.
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9 mins read|03/26/22The Exodus always remains a continual and present reality for the people of Israel—it is always on their mind. It was and remained the big salvific event of the Old Testament, yet at the same time it points forward to what God will yet/continue to do to save His people.
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14 mins read|03/26/22Paul puts everything he has gained by his religious life and training (verses 4-7) onto the scales opposite life with Christ and finds a real bargain.
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13 mins read|03/26/22This living Word breaks and crushes. It comes down as crushing judgment on those who reject the Son. But it promises to heal and restore all those who fall on the Son broken, contrite, and in faith.
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9 mins read|03/21/22Lent means that we do not have to look to ourselves but can look to our neighbor in love as Christ has loved us.
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13 mins read|03/19/22In this time of brutal war and divisive conflict, here we have an especially profound word of gospel.
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13 mins read|03/19/22The thrill of God’s grace fades and the slow march toward the cross dulls the heart. At such times, the former life beckons. Temptations to return grow strong. Which makes Lent such an important annual exercise.
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9 mins read|03/19/22In our preaching it is important to decide how to understand this. Are we going to preach the “now” or the “not yet”? As the people of Israel are living in their “now,” are they hearing the words of Isaiah as the “not yet” or, the “not yet of the not yet”?
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32 mins read|03/13/22Luther recognized that in the penitential psalms, God gives us the words to cry out to Him in our distress, lament our sins, and confess trust in the promise of His righteousness in which alone is our sure and certain hope.
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10 mins read|03/13/22This is a difficult time, but Ezekiel is giving great hope in our text for today. In spite of the circumstances, the Gospel predominates.
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