Homiletical Helps
Current Homiletical Helps articles which appeared in Concordia Journal
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Palm Sunday • Isaiah 50:4–9a • April 13, 2014
This sermon was prepared for Grace Lutheran Chapel in Bellefontaine Neighbors, Missouri. It makes use of various pictures of Jesus’ face from the church and school. The…
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Lent 4 • Isaiah 42:14–21 • March 30, 2014
By Robert Kolb Introductory thoughts The final verse of the pericope governs our use of it and its context in chapter 42. The Lord takes pleasure…
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Lent 3 • Exodus 17:1–7 • March 23, 2014
By Benjamin Haupt Throughout the second book of Moses, the Lord is listening intently to his people, and he yearns for them likewise to listen…
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Lent 2 • Genesis 12:1–9 • March 16, 2014
By Arthur F. Graudin Preliminary Comments Three small word combinations in the Hebrew provided direction for this sermon study: 1. lek-leka (v. 1). lek is…
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Lent 1 • Genesis 3:1–21 • March 9, 2014
The Search Begins An initial caution must be sounded about beginning a sermon with Genesis 3. By divine design, Genesis 3 is an inseparable part…
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Transfiguration of Our Lord • Exodus 24:8–18 • March 2, 2014
This Old Testament reading for Transfiguration stands as the complement and climax of the covenant ceremony that begins in Exodus 19. In broadest strokes, the…
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Epiphany 7 • Leviticus 19:1–2, 9–18 • February 23, 2014
Text Notes Verses 1–2: “Holy you will be because holy am I, Yahweh, your God.” The commands in Leviticus 19 pertain to almost every area…
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Epiphany 6 • Deuteronomy 30:15–20 • February 16, 2014
Choice Is More than Choosing Christians are confronted with many choices in this world of biomedical technology,and a rash of legal decisions has placed life…