Afflicting the Comfortable, Comforting the Afflicted: A Guide to Law and Gospel Preaching - Hardcover

by Glenn L. Monson (Author), Craig A. Satterlee (Foreword by)

A classic theology and a contemporary school of preaching come together in this new work. Glenn Monson, an active Lutheran preacher, has taken the substantial concerns of Law and Gospel theologians and combined them with the insights of the New Homiletic School to come up with a guide to sermon development that helps any preacher deliver Law and Gospel sermons in a contemporary way. The author leads the reader through a step-by-step process in thinking about Law and Gospel preaching from exegesis through sermon design to manuscript writing. Multiple examples from assigned lectionary texts are included, and several sermons are analyzed in detail. This book will be an invaluable friend of any lectionary preacher for whom Sunday is always coming and who longs to preach classic Law and Gospel sermons in a new and fresh way.

Author Biography

Glenn Monson is an active pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, having served in Pennsylvania and Minnesota. Ordained in 1991 from Luther Northwestern Theological Seminary in St. Paul, MN, he completed his DMin degree at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago in 2003. His thesis, "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way Through the Sermon," was published in Dialog in 2004.