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 225 — Thinking Out Loud (Trinity 18)
TGC 224 — Jonathan As Example
TGC 223 — Thinking Out Loud (Trinity 17)
TGC 222 — A Defense of Equity
TGC 221 — Thinking Out Loud (Trinity 16)
TGC 220 — Book Talk: Reu’s Homiletics
TGC 219 — Thinking Out Loud (Trinity 15)
TGC 218 — Faith of the Unborn
TGC 217 — Thinking Out Loud (Trinity 14)
TGC 216 — On Fasting
TGC 215 — Thinking Out Loud (Trinity 13)
TGC 214 — A Lutheran Kuyperian Vision?
TGC 213 — Thinking Out Loud (Trinity 12)
TGC 212 — What Is A Good Friend?
TGC 211 — Thinking Out Loud (Trinity 11)
TGC 210 — Thinking Out Loud (Trinity 10)
[From the Archives] TGC 086 — On Friendship
TGC 209 — Thinking Out Loud (Trinity 9)
TGC 208 — On Head Coverings
TGC 207 — Thinking Out Loud (Trinity 8)
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