- A Crosser’s Guide to Apology IV (Part Six of Six)
- A Crosser’s Guide to Apology IV (Part Five of Six)
- A Crosser’s Guide to Apology IV (Part Four of Six)
- A Crosser’s Guide to Apology IV (Part Three of Six)
- A Crosser’s Guide to Apology IV (Part Two of Six)
- A Crosser’s Guide to Apology IV (Part One of Six)
- A Refreshing Dose of Public Honesty
- A Bit of Gospel, A Bit of Law, A Bit of Astonishment. An Announcement Too
- Lowdown Love: A Sermon on Matthew 15:10-28
- Johann Agricola’s Catechism for Girls
- Teach Us to Pray
- Robert Bertram on “The Twice-Free Student—or Citizen.” (Part Two)
- Robert Bertram on “The Twice-Free Student—or Citizen.” (Part One)
- On the Fear and Love of God
- St. Paul’s Dangerous Idea (Part 3)
- St. Paul’s Dangerous Idea (Part 2)
- St. Paul’s Dangerous Idea (Part 1)
- “From Three to Four, Not Before!”
- “Unity after Uvalde?” A Year-Old Sermon on John 17:20-26
- Ten “Promising” Words? An Interchange (Part 2)
- Ten “Promising” Words? An Interchange (Part 1)
- On Checking the Blind Spot (A Sermon)
- God’s Ten Promising Words (Part 2)
- God’s Ten Promising Words (Part 1)
- A Maundy Thursday Meditation
- Depth in the Faith
- Believing Into….
- Luther on the Sound of the Wind (John 3)
- Some Thoughts on Christian Preaching
- Glowing Jesus, Real Sin
- Can I Get a Witness? Here I Stand
- Law and Gospel in Spiritual Care
- Cruciger’s Hymn Revisited, A Preaching Course, A Birthday
- The Net Made Flesh (A Not-To-Miss Rerun)
- “Kill Me, Jesus!” Notes on a Hymn and the Woman who Wrote It
- On Ministry and Epiphany
- Some Christmas Leftovers
- A Scholar’s Update
- A Christmas Gift of Blessed Remembering (Daniel Erlander)
- Announcing Edmund Schlink’s “Ecumenical Dogmatics”
- A Review of David Bentley Hart’s Atheist Delusions
- The Continuing Witness of Richard R. Caemmerer, Sr.
- God’s Call: Forgiveness, Freedom, and Vocation
- Pressing Reminders from Ed Schroeder (Part 2)
- Pressing Reminders from Ed Schroeder (Part 1)
- On Extracting Good News from a Thankless Text. An Example
- Reflections on the ELCA’s 2022 Churchwide Assembly
- A Review of David Zahl’s Low Anthropology
- In Praise of Thanks
- Extra Nos: An Ordination Sermon
- Reflections on the Queen’s Funeral
- On Performative Utterances
- All Leadership Is Service, All Service Is Leadership
- Will I Hear the Gospel this Fall?
- From Finland: Gospel-driven Joy as a Mission Strategy
- On the Question of Salvation Outside the Church: Luther vs. Luther (Part 3 of 3)
- On the Question of Salvation Outside the Church: Luther vs. Luther (Part 2 of 3)
- On the Question of Salvation Outside the Church: Luther vs. Luther (Part 1 of 3)
- What Preachers are For
- The Neighborhood of Jesus (A Homily on Luke 10:25-37)
- How Bach Set the Gospel to Music (A Book Review)
- Jesus Pressing His Luck (A Layperson’s Sermon on John 17)
- Raising Christian Children in a Secular World
- A Time for American Repentance (Part 2)
- A Time for American Repentance (Part 1)
- The Ten Commandments as a Resource for Daily Life
- Becoming Christ’s Body in the World
- A Review of Kristin Kobes Du Mez’s Jesus and John Wayne
- Luther’s Infamous “On the Jews.” An Assessment (Part 2)
- Luther’s Infamous “On the Jews.” An Assessment (Part 1)
- As War Rages in Ukraine: Fresh Thoughts on Forgiveness, Peacemaking, Love
- Law/Gospel and the Life of the Mind
- “Reconciled—So Let’s Pray!” A Reflection on Luke 11:5-13
- Easter at Ground Level—A Meditation on Baptism
- The Good News of Jesus Our Judge (An Easter Sermon)
- Devotion to Jesus? Service to the Poor? An Interpretation of John 12:1-8
- Perilous Children: Notes from the Lutheran/Jewish/Evangelical Frontier
- A Review of Robert Jenson’s A Theology in Outline
- Beware the Vultures! A Sermon on Genesis 15:1-12, 17-18
- Getting to Step Six (A Lenten Devotion)
- The ‘Peace-and-Justice’ Mantra. (An Ed Schroeder Rerun, Part 2)
- The ‘Peace-and-Justice’ Mantra. (An Ed Schroeder Rerun, Part 1)
- How Can We Love?
- Merciful Accompaniment
- Law, Gospel, and the Purple Church
- A Way to Pray the Lord’s Prayer
- The Lord’s Prayer Part 2
- The Lord’s Prayer
- Through Perils Unknown: Thoughts of a Seasoned Pastor in a New Call
- The Terrifying Promise of Love (A Response to Chris Neumann)
- Who Will Save the Neighborhood?
- “The Jesus Vaccine.” A Year-Old Christmas Sermon
- Christ’s Two Advents
- When the Ultimate Promise is Terrifying
- Facing the Sin of Racism
- “What If?” as a Tool for Law/Gospel Discernment
- Replaying A Swan Song
- A Review of Richard Lischer’s The End of Words
- Remembering Carl F. Schalk—Composer, Teacher, Friend
- Luke’s Gospel Through a Systematician’s Lens
- Marriage and the Hard Heart
- Justification is Not the Gospel?
- What the Pandemic is Teaching Me about Church
- Finding Gospel in Mark’s Gospel
- Getting Sermons to Stick
- From Prophecy to Promise
- Lust, Trust, and Scrambled Eggs
- Good News for the Privileged
- A New Chapter
- In the Throes of John 6
- A Quick Thought, A Quick Announcement
- Christ and the Human Condition, 2021
- A Parent’s Wedding-Day Dilemma
- Genuine Freedom
- Preaching the Prognosis
- Revisiting Patriotism
- Why is God “Jealous,” Etc.
- On Making Decisions in Light of the Gospel
- God Suffers?
- The Sound of the Spirit: A Reflection on the Trinity
- Easter Leftovers 2021
- On Being Saved and Bearing Fruit
- Ed Schroeder on our Lord’s Ascension
- The Easter Life in Practice (An Example)
- A New “Commandment”?
- Better Medicine
- Why is the Gospel not Preached? A Note to a Friend
- How the Old Age Works (A Book Review)
- The Good News in the “Short Ending” of Mark’s Gospel
- Reading and Reflection for Holy Week
- Addressing White Supremacy in the Church
- Caught to be Catchers
- God-Fearing, God-Praising: A Crossings-style Devotion
- Mission in the Gospel of Mark
- The Benefits of Christ for a Fractured America (Initial Thoughts)
- In the Aftermath of the Riot: Four “I” Words and a Word of Hope
- Angela Denker’s “Red State Christians.” A Review
- A Sermon in the Wake of the Capitol Riot
- First Thoughts on the Sack of the Capitol
- On Repentance and New Year’s Resolutions
- A Letter from Coronavirus Prison
- The Great Gift Exchange
- The Christmas Verdict
- What Heaven Is
- How I Finally Got Advent
- Mission is Essential!
- A Timely Sermon on Religion and Politics
- The Real Surprise of Matthew 25
- The Folk Religion of God Bless America, FROGBA Revisited
- More from “The Lion and the Lamb”
- Reformation-tide Spin on Law and Gospel (1)
- Plain(s) Theology for a Pandemic Problem
- Preach the Gospel! It’s What We Need!
- Esau McCaulley’s Reading While Black. A Review
- Offensiveness: Today’s Gospel Imperative. Its Gift Too.
- Antiracism as the Way of the Cross
- N.T. Wright’s “God and the Pandemic.” A Review
- Heavenly Places? That’s You
- The Jesus Mask
- Ed Schroeder on Thankfulness
- The Lord’s Prayer as a Prayer for Mission
- Mask or No Mask? Crossing Elisha and Dr. Fauci
- Best Practices for the Post-Pandemic Church
- The Peril and Promise of Holy Love
- Ed Schroeder on Faith and Risk
- Crossing Our American Moment through Psalm 13
- Glimpses of Easter: The Eucharist as a Visual Gift
- Law or Gospel? A Follow-up to the Post of June 11
- George Floyd as a Summons to Lutheran Repentance
- Pentecost as God’s Answer to the Mess We are In
- How a Church Can Dare to Die–or Live
- Ascended Indeed. Alleluia!
- Covid-19 and the Judgment of God
- On Earth As in Heaven
- “And There’s No Other God.” A Reprise for Today
- Hope to Cope
- “No Going Back.” An Easter Sermon
- Who’s On Trial Here?
- Hope and Meaning as the Virus Swirls
- Hope and Meaning as the Virus Swirls
- Repentance and Faith for Pandemic Days
- Believing is Seeing
- Promise vs. Panic: Using Christ When COVID-19 Lurks
- Learning to Beg
- Mixed Observations, All Brief
- A Valentine’s Gift for Gloomy Lutherans
- Whose Trial?
- The Homiletical Bind: Preaching Law and Gospel in the Congregation
- More Scraps on the Politics of Epiphany
- The Politics of Epiphany
- Mission in St. Matthew
- Chad Bird on the Baptism of Jesus
- Sheep, Goats—and Gospel? A New Year’s Homily
- A Thought for Christmas and a Conference Invitation
- The Original “Christmas Crossing”
- “When God is Silent.” A Sermon
- On the Thanks We Render Today
- “How Can I ‘See’ Jesus?”
- Christian Decline in America: The Pew Report
- Gospel Agents as “Trackers”
- Why Luther’s First Thesis Still Matters
- Talking Faithfully About Justification
- A Dose of Bertram in Anticipation of Reformation Sunday
- “Shut Up, Already!” Part Two
- “Shut Up, Already!” Part One
- “Why?”
- “What Else Shall We Preach?” A Homily
- A Labor Day Challenge
- Two Wings of Effective Mission
- What Is God Doing?
- The “Freedom” Struggle: Another Tussle with St. Paul
- To Give the Laity their Priestly Due: An Ongoing Lutheran Challenge
- On Parenting in 2019: A Law-Gospel Reflection
- Our Christian Shame
- Good News for Chronic Sufferers
- “What I Learned from Ed Schroeder” (Part 2)
- A Patriot’s Puzzle
- “What I Learned from Ed Schroeder”
- The Elevating Promise of God-Brought-Low
- Why the Reformation Matters Today (Part 2)
- Why the Reformation Matters Today
- Christ, Not Cyrus—Thank God!
- Our Priestly Mission
- Easter Mission at Courtside: A Coach’s Reflection
- Religion “Rebranded”
- In Ed-ifying Memory
- Faith as Evidence of the Resurrection: A Theme in St. John’s Easter Account
- Looking at the Passion through the Wrong End of Exodus, and Other Notes for Holy Week
- Anticipating Easter: A Sermon on Luke 24
- A Surprising Paucity of “Forgiveness”
- Where is God When Disaster Strikes?
- The Gospel at E. 93rd and Kinsman
- Why I Detest the Expression “People of Faith”
- Giving Thanks for Ed Schroeder (Repost of “The Care and Redemption of God’s Creation”)
- “Will No One Have the Guts to be a Sinner?” (Part 1)
- Why I Detest the Expression “People of Faith”
- Mission of God: Gospel of Luke
- A Review of Brian Stanley’s “Christianity in the Twentieth Century: A World History”
- Honest-to-God Gospel Meets the Dying World
- “To Be” or Not “To Be”: A Question to Ask When Reading St. Paul
- How God’s Law Works: Epiphanies from a Fiction Writer
- Why Jesus’ Baptism Matters for Jesus’ Missionaries
- A Preacher Still on Trial
- “A Little Dirt for Christmas.” A Sermon.
- Reflections on Mission: A Starting Point
- The Preacher’s Task: Robert W. Bertram to Lori Cornell (and Every Proclaimer)
- Thursday Theology November 29, 2018
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