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 245 — Thinking Out Loud (Christmas Day)
TGC 244 — Ark Think
TGC 243 — Thinking Out Loud (Advent 4)
TGC 242 — Two Kinds of Comfort
TGC 241 — Thinking Out Loud (Advent 3)
TGC 240 — The Prince of Paradox
TGC 239 — Thinking Out Loud (Advent 2)
TGC 238 — Victory By Head Wound
TGC 237 — Thinking Out Loud (Advent 1)
TGC 236 — What I Wish I Knew: Lessons From Getting an MBA
TGC 235 — Thinking Out Loud (Trinity 27)
TGC 234 — To Vest or Sweater Vest?
TGC 233 — Thinking Out Loud (Trinity 26)
TGC 232 — Christian Nationalism
TGC 231 — Thinking Out Loud (All Saints)
TGC 230 — Book Talk: Thoughts for Young Men, JC Ryle
TGC 229 — Thinking Out Loud (Reformation)
TGC 228 — Living With No Names
TGC 227 — Thinking Out Loud (James of Jerusalem, Brother of Jesus and Martyr)
TGC 226 — Truth of Myth
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