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 328 — Thinking Out Loud (Trinity 23)
[Special Release] The Greatness of Difficulty, Part 3 — Rev. Jason Braaten
[Special Release] The Greatness of Difficulty, Part 2 — Rev. Jason Braaten
[Special Release] The Greatness of Difficulty, Part 1 — Rev. Jason Braaten
TGC 327 — Echos from the Manosphere
[From the Archives] TGC 145 — Thinking Out Loud (All Saints)
TGC 326 — Ongoing Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
[From the Archives] TGC 143 — Thinking Out Loud (Reformation)
TGC 325 — You Might Be An Antinomian If . . .
TGC 324 — Thinking Out Loud (Trinity 20)
TGC 323 — Book Talk: The Boniface Option
TGC 322 — Thinking Out Loud (Trinity 19)
TGC 321 — Firm Foundations
TGC 320 — Thinking Out Loud (Trinity 18)
TGC 319 — Training Martyrs For The Prize
TGC 318 — Thinking Out Loud (Trinity 17)
TGC 317 — Can You Be More Merciful Than God?
TGC 316 — Thinking Out Loud (Trinity 16)
TGC 315 — The Jubilee
TGC 314 — Thinking Out Loud (Trinity 15)
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