Preach the Word – September/October 2016
Volume 20, Number 1 A new volume welcomes a new writer. Pastor Jonathan Scharf is husband to Janette, father to Andrew, Abi, Hannah, and Malachi, and pastor for the saints at Abiding Grace in Covington, ...
Preach the Word – May/June 2015
Volume 18, Number 5. Pastor Tom Westra highlights the importance of Christ's active obedience and how that shapes the rest of the elements of the sermon. A Clean Set of Clothes In place of our ...
Review: Gospel Sermons
Gospel Sermons: Volume I, by C.F.W. Walther. Translated by Donald E. Heck. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2013. 306 pages. C.F.W. Walther (1811-87) has long been regarded as the “American Luther” due to the important ...
Preach the Word – November/December 2013
Volume 17, Number 2. Preaching to the Choir Lutheran preachers are, generally-speaking, preaching to believers who are gathered for worship – they are, in essence, “preaching to the choir.” What does the “choir” need to ...
Review: Jesus and Scripture
Jesus and Scripture: Studying the New Testament Use of the Old Testament, by Steve Moyise. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2010. 147 pages. Steve Moyise is Professor of New Testament at the University of Chichester. He ...
Review: Friends of the Law
Friends of the Law: Luther’s Use of the Law for the Christian Life, by Edward A. Engelbrecht, St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2011. xvii + 310 pages. Edward Engelbrecht “serves as the senior editor for ...
Review: Holy People, Holy Lives: Law and Gospel in Bioethics
Holy People, Holy Lives: Law and Gospel in Bioethics, by Richard C. Eyer. St. Louis: CPH, 2000. 167 pages. At the time this book was written, Richard Eyer was serving “as assistant professor of philosophy ...
Review: Jesus + Nothing = Everything
Jesus + Nothing = Everything, by Tullian Tchividjian. Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2011. 220 pages. Tullian Tchividjian (cha-vi-jin) is the senior pastor at Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, where he followed long-time senior ...
Preach the Word – January/February 2011
Volume 14, Number 3 Key Issue #2: Growing in Freshness and Variety in Proclaiming Law and Gospel Refusing to reduce law and gospel proclamation to a predictable caricature of itself - finding the unique way ...
Preach the Word – January/February 2010
Volume 13, Number 3 The Sermon as Outreach: Preaching the Law We preachers, who constantly study and talk about the distinction between law and gospel, are tempted to make sermons into lessons on that distinction ...
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