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Give Them Christ: Preaching His Incarnation, Crucifixion, Resurrection, Ascension and Return is unavailable, but you can change that!

Much preaching today begins with the hearer’s “felt needs” and then moves to how Christianity can solve those problems. But this approach often results in trite Christologies that merely use Jesus as a means to an end or a vehicle for self-improvement. While preachers might not dispense with Christ altogether, other things subtly take center stage and become more important than Christ himself. ...

In our preaching we need to remind congregations of that. The exalted Lord is the Risen One. And he is exalted because he is risen. Take away his resurrection and you take away his lordship. What’s more, because Lord has become such a familiar, commonly used title for Jesus, we need to spell out its significance so that our hearers grasp the full force of it. In The Theology of the Resurrection (1933), Walter Kunneth, a theologian who was a leader of the Confessing Church in Germany that stood against
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