To the Pastors. This Sunday!
Souls hang in the balance as they hang on every word and Word.
This Sunday (9/14/2025) may be unlike any other in your ministry. You will stand before men and women who are raw with grief, anger, and questions about the meaning of everything. You will have hearers who may never return—souls you may never encounter again before the Lord calls you to account. For many, this may be the sole opportunity to hear that the Lord Jesus Christ died to put away their sins and make them His own.
After 9/11, the pews filled with the middle-aged and the old, asking how such evil could exist to fly airplanes into skyscrapers. But this Sunday, it will be the young who come: crying out, How can such evil exist to take the life of a son, a husband, a father—simply for being a peaceful Christian conservative who enjoyed debating? Asking, Who is this Jesus Christ whom Charlie Kirk proclaimed, and what is this eternal salvation he spoke of, and what must I do to be saved?
They will not look like your “regular” congregants. They will not speak and behave like “regular” Christians. They do not need to be judged on their “priors”, only their confession. This Sunday!
Pastors—preach as though all eternity depends on this one Lord’s Day. Do not stumble into the pulpit with thin words or half-prepared notes. This is your moment to deliver the whole counsel of God with exceptional clarity, the sword of truth in your hand and on your lips, and with the guileless compassion of the faithful shepherd. The Holy Spirit is presenting you with fields upon fields ripe for the harvest. Will you gather it, or will it fall and rot? This Sunday!
Fill your baptismal fonts. Be ready to baptize at a moment’s notice, and to break from the order of service if the Holy Spirit opens the floodgates of repentance. Let your sermon cut and heal, slay and raise. Let the lost weep for regeneration, and let the saved weep for joy. Do not count the minutes or the hours. Let the liturgy stretch and flex until the ingathering of the harvest is complete. This Sunday!
Ask yourself: Will I preach this Sunday as though it were my last? Will I pledge to preach every Sunday thereafter as though the final trumpet might sound before the benediction? This Sunday!
And when you speak of the death on everyone’s minds, avoid maudlin platitudes and proclaim resurrection boldness: Charlie Kirk is more alive than he ever was, because Christ is alive. Charlie was a sinner like us, saved to eternal life by grace through the faith that he so readily and cheerfully shared. Only Jesus bore the sins of all and deliberately suffered and shed His own blood, so that Charlie’s blood — and the blood of all the saints — will flow in fully restored bodies on the day of resurrection.
This Sunday! Preach Christ alone—Jesus, the stumbling block who is yet the cornerstone, who conquered sin, death, and the devil.
This Sunday! The ears of the young are at your mercy through His mercy.
This Sunday! The angels will crowd in to marvel as you proclaim the Gospel in the power of Christ, for Christ’s sake alone.
This Sunday! Preach Christ so that heaven rejoices at the glad tidings you bring.
This Sunday. Preach.
Revelation 5:13
And I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and in the sea, and all that is in them, saying: “To Him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power forever and ever!”
CHRIST IS KING
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Well said! Pray that the Lord give all the faithful pastors wisdom.
It will be an interesting one for sure.