The Pulpit
Resources for Preaching
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The Preacher’s Studio: Dale Meyer
The journey from text to pulpit can be a long and winding road, filled with false starts, surprising discoveries, and hard choices along the way.…
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Proper 28 • Matthew 25:14–30 • November 13, 2011
by Wayne E. Schmidt Editor’s Note: The following homiletical help is adapted from Concordia Journal, July 1985. Financial institutions spend no little effort to keep the…
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The Preacher’s Studio: David Peter
The journey from text to pulpit can be a long and winding road, filled with false starts, surprising discoveries, and hard choices along the way.…
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The Tapestry of Preaching
Dr. David Schmitt explores the various voices, functions, and contexts that interweave to form the “tapestry” of the preaching task. Reprinted from the Spring 2011…
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The Preacher’s Studio: Glenn Nielsen
This semi-regular video series features preachers discussing the art of preaching with students, faculty, and pastors within the context of a specific sermon they have…
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All Saints’ Day • Matthew 5:1–12 • November 6, 2011
By Bruce M. Hartung Edward Blair suggested that Matthew’s understanding of salvation centered on “knowing, believing, being, and doing.”1 I have found that center point…
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Reformation Day • Matthew 11:12–19 • October 30, 2011
By Kent Burreson What have you come here to see? (Mt 11:7–9). This is one of the questions Jesus puts to the crowds at this turning…
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Proper 25 • Matthew 22:34–46 • October 23, 2011
By Thomas Egger At the Jerusalem temple (Mt 21:23), as the great feast approaches, a high-profile religious confrontation takes place. Jesus has entered the city amidst…
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Proper 24 • Matthew 22:15–22 • October 16, 2011
By David Schmitt Textual Study: At the heart of this text lies an aphorism (v. 21), the saying of Jesus that the Pharisees had hoped…