Preaching

Preaching to explain the Verba

July 30, 2009

Pastor Mason Beecroft found this little gem from Luther, and it’s renewed my committment to preach in such a way that people are led to the Sacrament: For the preaching ought to be nothing but an explanation of the words of Christ, when he instituted the mass and said, ‘This is my body, this is [...]

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The Holy Spirit's public witness

May 22, 2009

Luther on the objectivity of the Holy Spirit’s testimony: No one in need of comfort, therefore, should wait until the Holy spirit in all his majesty speaks to him personally from heaven. For the Holy Spirit carries out his witness publicly in the sermon. That is where you must seek and await him, till the [...]

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Preaching the Sunday

April 20, 2009

My friend David Petersen (at least I think it was him; I can’t find it now), pastor of Redeemer Lutheran Church in Fort Wayne, wrote somewhere recently, “Preach the Sunday, not the text.” I was thinking about that during the reading of the first lesson yesterday, Ezekiel 37.1-14, on the valley of the dry bones. [...]

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Wife as sermon illustration

September 22, 2008

Well done; funny and painful at the same time! Thanks to MZH for sending it. The video is after the jump.

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