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15 mins read|12/23/23As we celebrate Advent and Christmas, we flex the muscles of a new season, a new year, a new life which His resurrection and our baptisms have bestowed upon us.
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19 mins read|12/16/23A little time spent with this book might well prompt your imagination and stimulate meditation on the story of Christmas.
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13 mins read|12/16/23“What’s the play about?” Imogene asked. “It’s about Jesus,” I said. “Everything here is,” she muttered.
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27 mins read|12/10/23The Magnificat invites us to enter into, consider, and embrace the worldview of a teenaged Jewish girl and her geriatric aunt: The one bearing the prophet Elijah which was to come and the other carrying within her womb the God whom she and her nation worshipped and feared.
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15 mins read|12/02/23Today, I want to share with you one simple trick which will help to ensure the stories you tell are truly “stories,” and not just an arranging of events in supposedly narrative form.
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31 mins read|11/25/23God did not rend the heavens and come down to collect the righteous for Himself. He came from a lineage of sinners to be their Savior.
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15 mins read|11/18/23For preachers with ears to hear and eyes to see, good stories are all around us.
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14 mins read|11/11/23All Christian preaching is done in view of the eschatological horizon as we proclaim the Lord who will return as the Judge of all in glory who can no longer be contradicted or denied.
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9 mins read|11/08/23In this episode, we discuss preaching to those in prison, the consequences of sin, and the power of the gospel. We read excerpts from Karl Barth’s prison sermons and converse about preaching, pastoral care to the vulnerable, where Jesus locates himself for the preaching of the Gospel, and how we can all “set the captives free” through the power of the Gospel proclaimed for the forgiveness of sin.
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14 mins read|11/04/23For preachers, the inspirational element of good stories is particularly vital. But how do they do it?
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9 mins read|10/29/23Those who have gone before us in the faith have no more need of absolution, for their baptisms have been brought to completion and they are eternally free from sin and done with death.
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17 mins read|10/21/23If we take the article of justification out of the center, very soon we will not know why we are evangelical Christians or should remain so.-Hans J. Iwand
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