The Pulpit
Resources for Preaching
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Advent 3 • Isaiah 35:1–10 • December 15, 2013
Editor’s Note: The following homiletical help is adapted from Concordia Journal, October 1998. By Jeffrey A. Gibbs Textual observations: The historical situation at the time…
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Advent 2 • Isaiah 11:1–10 • December 8, 2013
By Francis C. Rossow The tree metaphor with which the text begins is a continuation of the same metaphor introduced at the end of the preceding…
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Advent 1 • Isaiah 2:1–5 • December 1, 2013
By Paul Philp A new church year has begun, and the prophet Isaiah gives us a glimpse of the future new creation by focusing us upon…
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Proper 29 • Colossians 1:13–20 • November 24, 2013
By Bruce M. Hartung An encouragement when preparing to preach on this text, the Epistle assigned for the Last Sunday of the Church Year: Read aloud…
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Proper 28 • 2 Thessalonians 3:(1–5) 6–13 • November 17, 2013
By Rick Marrs Since becoming a seminary professor, I have been unpleasantly surprised at the number of lay people who have told me that they do…
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Proper 27 • 2 Thessalonians 2:1–8, 13–17 • November 10, 2013
By David I. Lewis Overview In 2 Thessalonians 2 the Apostle Paul discusses matters of eschatology as he exhorts the church in Thessalonica not to be…
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All Saints’ Day • 1 John 3:1–3 • November 3, 2013
By Kent Burreson Looking Forward to the Family Reunion Certain feast days in the church calendar have a decidedly baptismal focus: Epiphany, the Baptism of…
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Reformation Day • Romans 3:19–28 • October 27, 2013
By Bruce Schuchard The church’s celebration, its regular remembrance, of seminal events––like the Reformation––happens so that the faithful might be encouraged to remember and never…