Essays on Preaching (62)
  1. That is the task of preaching in these last weeks of the Church Year, to enable the people given to our care, to praise God from the perspective of the end when our Lord will return in glory bringing us into His Kingdom of glory.
  2. The following practices will prove to be beneficial for a preacher’s weekly sermon preparations.
  3. The following practices will prove to be beneficial for a preacher’s regular long-range planning.
  4. Ethics begins not with our doing, but with the Triune God’s giving.
  5. When Luther was in the pulpit, he was teaching, and when he was in the lecture hall at the podium, he was preaching. Linebaugh’s outstanding book will help contemporary pastors to do the same.
  6. Salutary funeral preaching seeks to set the life of the baptized believer who has died within the life of Christ incarnate, crucified, risen, and reigning.
  7. On this Maundy Thursday, in particular, let the “for you” of Christ’s gifts dominate.
  8. Betrayed. It is a word which chills the soul and sickens the stomach. To be betrayed is to have a friend turn on you, treating you as an enemy.
  9. Passion Week preaching is not simply preaching about the events leading up to Jesus’ crucifixion but to announce to the world how through this single death, sins are answered for, and God is reconciled with humanity.
  10. Luther 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.
  11. Jesus' cross is for dull shepherds and bright magi. It is for the whole world. It is for you.
  12. Lutheran theology begins not with God in His terrifying majesty but with God in the flesh, God crucified for sinners. Advent is about this trajectory.
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