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Full Text There are a number of points I review and judge a sermon on. Being cut and thrust personality, I like criteria for evaluation that are as crunchy (vs. squishy) as possible. Coming out of a number of sources (CFW Walther’s Law & Gospel, Dr. Schmitt my Homiletics Prof at Concordia, Robert Dabney through . . . → Read More: Specific Grace – Relooking at the Prodigal Son – Lk 15:11-32 Full Text I’ll just say I hated the text this week. It was harsh and rough, and I couldn’t escape it. Everything I read to prepare for preaching just lead deeper into the heart of repentance. Everything lead to heart rending stories. A better preacher would have been more winsome. Me, . . . → Read More: Deep Lent  One comment - (Comments are closed)  Lent, Luke, Repentance, Sermons  China, Ezekiel, Haiti, Lent, Repentance Full Text Mark’s Palm Sunday Text (Mark 11:1-11) ends oddly. “Jesus looked around and it being late went back out to Bethay with his disciples.” The donkey, the cloaks and the palms, the hosannas and the shouts, all end with a quick look around and a walk back out. The question to ask is . . . → Read More: The Kingdom of David or the Kingdom of God – Mark 11:1-11 – Palm Sunday One comment - (Comments are closed) cross, Lent, Mark, Sermons Kingdom of God, Palm Sunday, Son of David Full Text I am a member of my Generation. We are finely tuned to irony. The gulfs between what one person says and what another, or the reader or God observes. When we read Mark’s account of the crucifixion (Mark 15:25-32), the weight of the irony is amazing. An exerpt from this sermon… Text: Romans 10:1-13 The prayer book that I follow has the 2 year daily lectionary texts (OT, Epistle and Gospel) and it also includes a 4th readings from a wide variety of saints from accross time. The philosopher Pascal (Pascal’s wager, Pascal’s triangle) was the writer of today’s fourth reading. Pascal was for much of . . . → Read More: Knowledge and Love – Grace Alone Text: Jeremiah 22:13-23 The Spirit of God is often pictured as the Wind. We do not see the wind itself, but we see its effects. The frightening thing about that what happens when we lose the ability to recognize the true prophetic Word from the wind itself? Martin Luther worried about such a happening. . . . → Read More: Shepherded by the Wind Full Text Text: Mark 14:32-42 Two poles – 1) It’s about Jesus and 2) He’s got a mission. That has been the core summary of this series through Holy Week in Mark’s Gospel. Our spiritual adversary tries to push us off that second pole. The last thing he wants is faithful Christians actually sharing the . . . → Read More: Don’t look inward, look outward for our salvation and our mission Full Text The text was John 3:1-21 which includes John 3:16. The scene set up is Nicodemus coming to Jesus at night and a conversation happens. Nicodemus drops out of the conversation exasperated. And then it turns into a one sided conversation. This sermon reads that one sided conversation of Jesus as starting out with . . . → Read More: For God so Loved the World? Full Text Wow, it was a busy week. This text was the core of my lenten devotion last week. Prepping for Mauday Thursday as well. It was Mark’s account of the Last Supper. In these lenten devotions, we’ve been walking through the Markan account of Holy Week. I’ve also been using a . . . → Read More: Ritual – Mark 14:22-26 Full Text The story of Jacob wrestling God all night is a little like each sermon prep. Sometimes you are exhausted, but have feel like you have extracted something worth sharing. Some weeks you feel like the Rock just slammed you from the top rope about 10 mins into the match. The technical word is . . . → Read More: Theology of the Cross – 1 Cor 1:18-31 |
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