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 353 — Thinking Out Loud (Sexagesima)
TGC 352 — Tunes of Triumph
TGC 351 — Thinking Out Loud (Septuagesima)
TGC 350 — The Cost in Counting
TGC 349 — Thinking Out Loud (Transfiguration)
TGC 348 — The Apocrypha
TGC 347 — Thinking Out Loud (Epiphany 2)
TGC 346 — On Drunken Peasants
[From the Archives] TGC 249 — Thinking Out Loud (Epiphany 1)
TGC 345 — Keeping It Real
[From the Archives] TGC 247 — Thinking Out Loud (Circumcision & Name of Jesus)
TGC 344 — Thinking Out Loud (Christmas Day)
TGC 343 — Generations of Grace
TGC 342 — Thinking Out Loud (Christmas Eve—Midnight)
TGC 341 — Thinking Out Loud (Vigil of Christmas)
TGC 340 — Thinking Out Loud (Advent 4)
TGC 339 — And Their Works Do Follow Them
TGC 338 — Thinking Out Loud (Advent 3)
TGC 337 — Hunger for God
TGC 336 — Thinking Out Loud (Advent 2)
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