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 265 — Christology of Job
TGC 264 — Thinking Out Loud (Lent 1)
TGC 263 — Gods of Our Age (Sexuality), Part2
TGC 262 — Thinking Out Loud (Quinquagesima)
TGC 261 — Context Matters (LCACA)
TGC 260 — Gods of Our Age (Sexuality), Part 1
TGC 259 — Thinking Out Loud (Sexagesima)
TGC 258 — Anatomy of a Confusion (Large Catechism Edition)
TGC 257 — Thinking Out Loud (Septuagesima)
TGC 256 — Cultivating a Spirit of Martyrdom
TGC 255 — Thinking Out Loud (Transfiguration)
TGC 254 — On Being on a Team, Part 2
TGC 253 — Thinking Out Loud (Epiphany 3)
TGC 252 — On Lament
TGC 251 — Thinking Out Loud (Epiphany 2)
TGC 250 — Related and Distinct
TGC 249 — Thinking Out Loud (Epiphany 1)
TGC 248 — Book Talk: The Practical Missionary, by JHC Fritz
TGC 247 — Thinking Out Loud (Circumcision & Name of Jesus)
TGC 246 — Local Missionaries
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