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10 mins read|03/31/19The texts compel us to deal with the “new thing” (Isa.43:18) that God is doing, namely, preaching the righteousness of faith to all nations. God’s judgment of justification is now for all. It has nothing to do with the flesh and everything to do with faith.
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9 mins read|03/31/19What he says in this parable has significance for us today, and needs to be preached. But the application is not direct and therefore should be done carefully.
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13 mins read|03/25/19All the piety, rigor, and discipline presented to the world by the believers, the General knew, was done out of fear and the denial of God’s grace
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16 mins read|03/24/19Lenten 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.
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13 mins read|03/24/19As you preach this week, you’re at it again, announcing the free forgiveness won by Christ, handing over the inheritance of eternal life, and distributing into their mouths the blood of the covenant and the foretaste of the Feast to come. The Father’s arms are wide open. His promises are irrevocable.
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12 mins read|03/24/19The Parable of the Prodigal Son is a familiar story. This creates a challenge for the preacher.
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6 mins read|03/24/19In Christ, the new and better David, we are redeemed from our lame condition of sin
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10 mins read|03/18/19Had you been the only sinner in the world, He would have died for you alone
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12 mins read|03/17/19To be textual in our preaching, we ought to do as Paul does, and drag our people through the Old Testament narratives. We ought to let the Holy Spirit do the illustrations. Of course, Paul’s illustrating too, but he’s doing it in the Spirit and using the Holy Spirit’s own vocabulary.
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11 mins read|03/17/19We’re tempted to try and connect the dots. Something bad happens to someone and we can’t help but wonder about the cause. Even if we don’t say it out loud, we are tempted to think they must have done something to deserve it. They must be guilty of something. God must be punishing them for something we don’t know about. But Jesus stops this thinking in its tracks.
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15 mins read|03/14/19Our enoughness before God cannot be earned by our piety or bestowed by our neighbor. Our righteousness and our justification come from Christ and His work for us
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11 mins read|03/11/19The great steadfast love of God is shown by His work on the cross
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