preaching

Should every sermon preach Christ and him crucified for sinners? Some thoughts here. Bryan's Chapells that is referenced speaks to "Biblical preaching versus Christ-centered preaching"

In a book I'm reading, the author sets out to get a definition of the Gospel and asks what is the content of the Gospel. Could we conclude that Acts gives us a model of a sermon? What about Paul? He was sent to preach the Gospel. He was preaching to the church, Christians in Corinth.

If God's will is that all men be saved and that it's through his word, namely the Gospel and that "For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God". We who are being saved, the cross, the power of God.

"What is the content of the gospel message? In the sermons recorded in the book of Acts, the emphasis is on leading people to realize their guilt and the punishment they deserved for their sins, and then leading them to find peace in Christ's death and resurrection. Peter in his Pentecost sermon did not point out his hearers' alienation from God as evidenced by the personal problems in their lives, but drove them to that realization by telling them that Jesus would return to judge them -- Jesus "whom [they] crucified" but who was now "Lord and Christ" (Acts 2:36).

St. Paul preached this same message to the people in Pisidian Antioch. He said, "We tell you the good news: What God promised our fathers, he has fulfilled for us, their children, by raising up Jesus" (Acts 13:32,33).

We should note also Paul's statements to the Corinthians in the first two chapters of his first letter. He states that Christ sent him to "preach the gospel--not with words of human wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of it's power (1 Corinthians 1:17)" "

--Law and Gospel: Foundation of Lutheran Ministry, Robert J. Koester pp. 5-7