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Tag: Homiletics

Preach the Word – July/August 2015

by: barbara.rickaby@wls.edu Jul 10, 2015Preach The Word0

Volume 18, Number 6. In this edition, Pastor Tom Westra provides a checklist for writing a sermon and writes about how Paul teaches us justification and sanctification. A Sermon Checklist A checklist of important characteristics ...

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Matthew as Story

by: barbara.rickaby@wls.edu Feb 25, 2015Shepherd's Study0

In the three-year cycle of the ILCW lectionary, Year A is the year of Matthew. Since Year A has now ended and we are well into Year B, this review is perhaps a year too ...

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Review: Christ-Centered Preaching

by: barbara.rickaby@wls.edu Feb 11, 2015Shepherd's Study0

As the title indicates, the author is concerned with centering preaching in Christ.  In the foreword to the second edition, he makes a two-part clarification on “Christ-centered”: first as “standing for...God’s redemptive work, which finds ...

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Review: Brothers, We Are Not Professionals

by: barbara.rickaby@wls.edu Jun 17, 2014Shepherd's Study0

The subtitle of this engaging read is “A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry”.  Titles like that tend to upset the reader’s equilibrium.  One never knows what to expect when he hears the word “radical”.  ...

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Review: How to Preach a Parable

by: barbara.rickaby@wls.edu Jan 27, 2014Shepherd's Study0

How to Preach a Parable: Designs for Narrative Sermons is a title pregnant with meaning.  The title seems to suggest that this book is a how-to-preach-on-parables manual of sorts.  However, the book’s title is hinting ...

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Review: Gospel Sermons

by: barbara.rickaby@wls.edu Jan 7, 2014Shepherd's Study0

Gospel Sermons: Volume I, by C.F.W. Walther. Translated by Donald E. Heck. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2013. 306 pages. C.F.W. Walther (1811-87) has long been regarded as the “American Luther” due to the important ...

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Review: A Year with the Church Fathers

by: barbara.rickaby@wls.edu Dec 13, 2013Shepherd's Study0

A Year with the Church Fathers: Meditations for Every Day of the Church Year, by Scott R. Murray. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2011, 408 pages. Scott Murray is an LCMS parish pastor since 1983 ...

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Review: Right in Their Own Eyes

by: barbara.rickaby@wls.edu Oct 14, 2013Shepherd's Study0

Right In Their Own Eyes—The Gospel According to Judges, by George M. Schwab. Phillipsburg: P and R Publishing, 2011. 233 pages. George M. Schwab is an Associate professor of Old Testament at Erskine Seminary. He ...

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Review: In Their Sandals

by: barbara.rickaby@wls.edu Jul 12, 2013Shepherd's Study0

In Their Sandals: First Person Sermons of Biblical Character, by Robert Guenther. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013. 138 pages. Pastor Rob Guenther graduated from Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary  in 2004. Guenther’s served the first six years ...

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Review: Blink

by: barbara.rickaby@wls.edu Jun 12, 2013Shepherd's Study0

Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell.  New York, New York: Back Bay Books, 2005.  296 pages. Malcolm Gladwell is the author of the #1 international bestseller The Tipping Point.  He is a staff writer for The New ...

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