What does it look like to preach while the world is ending? Ringside Preachers, Craft of Preaching, and John Pless from Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne tackle this topic from a practical and historical viewpoint after eating fried chicken livers, of course.
Topics:
- Suffering and sanctification; what God is doing in your life to save you from yourself?
- Pandemics help us to confront reality and open doors to deliver Christ
- Interpreting the law for the preaching of the Gospel
- “He who has the victory of the last hour can endure the next few minutes.” Learning form the preachers of history: Tillich, Sasse, and Bonhoeffer
- Demythologizing the people; preachers need to know the lie
- Disconnecting death from sin in our pandemic
Guest:
John T. Pless
Assistant professor of Pastoral Ministry and Missions and the director of Field Education At Concordia Theological Seminary Fort Wayne.
Thank you:
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and the Craft of Preaching
Music:
Willing Virginia - Arms of the King on Spotify, iTunes, SoundCloud
Dead Horse One - I love my man
Other stuff:
The End of the World, Archibald MacLeish
Formula of Concord - Election
Heidelberg Disputation, Martin Luther - calls a thing what it is
Oswald Bayer
Whether One May Flee from a Deadly Plague; Letter to Johann Hess from Martin Luther
Hermann Sasse, American Christianity and the Church 1927
Johann Konrad Wilhelm Löhe, 3 books about the church
Sasse, wartime sermon
Psalm 90