Most church services include preaching... but why? What should be the focus of a sermon? For that matter, what should not be the focus of a sermon? And is any genre more or less compatible with law-gospel preaching? Plus: Sarah shares the worst sermon she ever heard. And a few other doozies besides.
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Notes:
1. Iowa Preachers Project
2. Related episodes: Law and Gospel Part 1, Law and Gospel Part 2, How to Hack the Law, Reflections on Tokyo Ministry
3. Luther, A Brief Instruction on What to Look for and Expect in the Gospel
4. Crossings Community template for law-gospel preaching
5. Augsburg Confession Article 5
5. Seven narrative sermons by Sarah
6. Hays, The Faith of Jesus Christ
7. Zahl, The Holy Spirit and Christian Experience
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2025 Bonus 6: Crossover with Enter the Bible (2 of 2)
Dad and I are back on Enter the Bible to discuss whether and to what extent Christians are obligated to obey the laws found in Scripture.
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2025 Bonus 5: Crossover with Enter the Bible (1 of 2)
Dad and I both moonlight on Enter the Bible to discuss whether faith is our work or God's work. Or maybe that's the wrong question...?
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The Devil
What's worse, a Christianity exceedingly well aware of the devil... or a Christianity totally unaware of it? What's worse, the devil you know or the devil you don't? Did the devil make you do it? or did God in disguise? In this episode Dad and I undertake a historical survey of Christian understandings of the devil, where it's gone wrong, and (if such a thing is possible) how to speak of the devil aright.
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Notes:
1. Related episodes: Nenilava, the Blumhardts, Jacques Ellul, Powers and Principalities, Howard Thurman
2. Ziegler, God's Adversary and Ours
3. Žižek and Milbank, The Monstrosity of Christ
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Luther's Confession Concerning Christ's Supper
Luther's 1528 treatise is quite the diatribe against denials of Christ's bodily presence in the sacrament of his Supper. But it is also a deep exploration of the nature of meaning, what we mean when we speak, and above all what Christ means when he speaks. Plus, it'll set right anyone still misinformed enough to think that Lutherans teach "consubstantiation"!
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Notes:
1. Related episodes: Holy Communion: Discipline, Holy Communion: Doctrine, Virtual Communion
2. Luther, Confession Concerning Christ's Supper, in Luther's Works 37
3. Uggla, Becoming Human Again: The Theological Life of Gustaf Wingren
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