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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[From the Archives] TGC 119 — The Lie of Secular vs Religious
[From the Archives] TGC 209 — Thinking Out Loud (Trinity 9)
[From the Archives] TGC 126 — The Mortification of Sin
[From the Archives] TGC 207 — Thinking Out Loud (Trinity 8)
[From the Archives] TGC 074 — Sufficiency & Clarity of Scripture
TGC 304 — Thinking Out Loud (Trinity 7)
TGC 303 — Musk’s Method
TGC 302 — Thinking Out Loud (Trinity 6)
TGC 301 — Conventions Matter
TGC 300 — Thinking Out Loud (Trinity 5)
TGC 299 — When Woke Goes to Church
TGC 298 — Thinking Out Loud (Visitation)
TGC 297 — Most Influential Theologian You Never Heard Of
TGC 296 — Thinking Out Loud (Presentation of Augsburg Confession)
[From the Archives] TGC 187 — On Imprecation
TGC 295 — Thinking Out Loud (Trinity 2)
TGC 294 — Familiarty Breeds Contemplation
TGC 293 — Thinking Out Loud (Feast of St. Barnabas, Apostle)
TGC 292 — Mirror, Mirror
TGC 291 — Thinking Out Loud (Trinity Sunday)
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