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 284 — Thinking Out Loud (Easter 5)
TGC 283 — The Confessional Cache
TGC 282 — Thinking Out Loud (Easter 4)
TGC 281 — Live Not By Lies
TGC 280 — Thinking Out Loud (Easter 3)
TGC 279 — Book Talk: Ploductivity by Douglas Wilson
TGC 278 — Thinking Out Loud (Easter 2)
TGC 277 — Fruits of Repentance
[From the Archives] TGC 184 — Thinking Out Loud (Easter Day)
TGC 276 — Thinking Out Loud (Easter Vigil)
TGC 275 — When the Divine Goes Digital?
TGC 274 — Thinking Out Loud (Palm/Passion Sunday)
TGC 273 — The Lord’s Service
TGC 272 — Thinking Out Loud (Lent 5)
TGC 271 — Book Talk: The Case for Christian Nationalism, by Stephen Wolfe
TGC 270 — Thinking Out Loud (Lent 4)
TGC 269 — Whether Old Lutheranism Leads to Rome, Part 2
TGC 268 — Thinking Out Loud (Lent 3)
TGC 267 — Whether Old Lutheranism Leads to Rome, Part 1
TGC 266 — Thinking Out Loud (Lent 2)
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