Homiletical Helps
Current Homiletical Helps articles which appeared in Concordia Journal
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Lent 5 • Luke 20:9–20 • March 13, 2016
Editor’s note: The following homiletical help is adapted from Concordia Journal, January 1980. By William J. Schmelder The preacher needs to resist mightily the temptation…
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Lent 4 • Luke 15:1–3, 11–32 • March 6, 2016
By Michael J. Redeker The fourth Sunday in Lent is known as Laetare (rejoice) Sunday. It is the midway point in Lent and has been viewed…
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Lent 3 • Luke 13:1–9 • February 28, 2016
By Glenn Nielsen In this text Jesus doesn’t explicitly accuse someone of something that needs repentance. Rather, he says the unfortunate people in the tragedies were…
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??Lent 2 • Luke 13:31–35 • February 21, 2016
By Paul Sieveking This week’s lessons are confrontational. The Old Testament lesson is a confrontation between Jeremiah and the people of Judah. In the Gospel we…
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Transfiguration Sunday • Luke 9:28–36 • February 7, 2016
By Mark Rockenbach In the beginning God said, “Let there be light” (Gn 1:3) and there was light. The voice of God called into existence…
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Epiphany 4 • Luke 4:31–44 • January 31, 2016
By Paul R. Raabe This gospel lesson records part of Jesus’s Galilean ministry, after he went down from Nazareth to Capernaum. Here we see Jesus teaching,…
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Epiphany 3 • Luke 4:16–30 • January 24, 2016
By David Peter This text is appropriate for reflection early in the Epiphany season for several reasons. First, it reports one of Jesus’s first acts…
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Epiphany 2 • John 2:1–11 • January 17, 2016
By David I. Lewis Introduction Today’s gospel lesson records the beginning of the miraculous signs (αρχη των σημειων) which Jesus did as recorded in the…