All Saints Day
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All Saints’ Day • Matthew 5:1–12 • November 6, 2016
By Joel Elowsky Crowds are always following Jesus looking for something. These crowds come from everywhere, not just the locals, and they’re filled with expectation. He…
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All Saints’ Day • 1 John 3:1–3 • November 1, 2015
Editor’s note: The following homiletical help is adapted from Concordia Journal, January 1988. By Francis C. Rossow Our modern rockets are useful for other than…
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All Saints’ Day • Revelation 7:9–17 • November 2, 2014
By Erik Herrmann The celebration of saints has a checkered history in the church: raucous festivals around martyrs’ graves, prayers to saints to escape various kinds of…
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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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All Saints’ Day • Revelation 7:2–17 • November 4, 2012
By Joel Biermann Opportunities to preach on the Apocalypse are rare enough, but when presented with a text as powerful and beautiful as this, one…
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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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All Saints’ Day • Revelation 7:(2–8) 9–17 • November 7, 2010
by Kent Burreson Getting to Know the White-Clad Relatives The central question of chapter 7 in John’s vision, “Who are these, clothed in white robes,…
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All Saints’ Day · Matthew 5:1-12 · November 1, 2009
By Jeff Gibbs I would suggest that the preacher not try to “cover” the entirety of the Beatitudes; there’s too much here! For a relatively lengthy…