In my experience, preaching for the high feasts (Christmas, Holy Week, and Easter) are the most difficult. There is always that pull to bring out the best, to preach so that people will come back the next Sunday, to wow the crowd with your deep theological insights, high-sounding poetic words and rhetorical flourishes. In short, there's a pull to be cute and edgy. But when you read our forefathers' sermons for these days, they don't fall into this pit. They take seemingly simple biblical truths and open them up for the hearer to bask in their simple but profound glory. Dave Petersen (pastor of Redeemer Lutheran Church, Fort Wayne, IN, and Departmental Editor of Gottesdienst: the Journal of Lutheran Liturgy with his column "Commentary on the War") shows us how C.F.W. Walther preached one Christmas day. We look at this sermon (in this book of a collection of his sermons) and see the beauty in simplicity and the glory of God's truth in the well-known Gospel message.
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TGC 381 - Thinking Out Loud (Pentecost)
TGC 380 - Antinomian Distaste for OT Particularity
TGC 379 - Thinking Out Loud (Easter 7)
TGC 378 - Thinking Out Loud (Easter 6)
TGC 377 - Thinking Out Loud (Easter 5)
TGC 376 - On Morale
TGC 375 - Thinking Out Loud (Easter 4)
TGC 374 - Anatomy of an Implosion
TGC 373 - Thinking Out Loud (Easter 3)
TGC 372 - Book Talk: Leadership & Emotional Sabotage by Joe Rigney
TGC 371 - Thinking Out Loud (Easter 2)
TGC 370 - Thinking Out Loud (Easter Day)
[From the Archives] TGC 276 — Thinking Out Loud (Easter Vigil)
TGC 369 - Thinking Out Loud (Good Friday)
TGC 368 - Book Talk: For Better, Not For Worse: A Manual of Christian Marriage
TGC 367 - Thinking Out Loud (Lent 6)
TGC 366 - A Preaching Protocol
TGC 365 - Thinking Out Loud (Lent 5)
TGC 364 - The Stones Do Cry Out
TGC 363 - Thinking Out Loud (Lent 4)
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