Homiletical Helps
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Proper 18 • Ezekiel 33:7–9 • September 7, 2014
By David Wollenburg I actually cringe every time I encounter this text. It isn’t that I don’t like it, or don’t understand what is being said. It…
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Proper 17 • Jeremiah 15:15–21 • August 31, 2014
Editor’s note: The following homiletical help is adapted from Concordia Journal, July 1999. By Ernest Bernet On the second Sunday after Pentecost we heard Jeremiah…
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Proper 16 • Isaiah 51:1–6 • August 24, 2014
By Francis C. Rossow This passage is about the end times in which the gospel is not only present (as it is in all such readings) but…
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Proper 15 • Isaiah 56:1, 6–8 • August 17, 2014
Editor’s note: The following homiletical help is adapted from Concordia Journal, July 1999. By Robert W. Weise Salvation Is for All I. Introduction A. Most…
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Proper 14 • Job 38:4–18 • August 10, 2014
By David R. Maxwell This text emphasizes the transcendence of God. The question for the preacher is, “Why do we need to know that God is…
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Proper 13 • Isaiah 55:1–5 • August 3, 2014
By David Schmitt In 1538, the Dance of Death made its way into the Bible. In their printing of the Old Testament, the Treschel Brothers included…
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Proper 12 • Deuteronomy 7:6-9 • July 27, 2014
Editor’s Note: The following homiletical help is adapted from Concordia Journal, January 1984. By Thomas Manteufel According to the context of this pericope, Israel was…
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Proper 11 • Isaiah 44:6–8 • July 20, 2014
By Tony Cook Isaiah 44:6–8 is nestled within a larger discourse of the chapter that glorifies the God of creation over the idols made by man, while…
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Proper 10 • Isaiah 55:10–13 • July 13, 2014
By James W. Voelz Preliminary Thoughts It is easy to treat this text non- or a-historically, preaching a generalized sermon about the word of God and its…