The power belongs to Scripture. We play a part, but it’s not really about us. After we step down from the pulpit, the word keeps working. We do nothing; the word does everything.

It’s the Tuesday after Easter. If you’re a preacher, it’s time for some proverbial Wittenberg beer.

In March 1522, Martin Luther preached a sermon about the power of Scripture:

I simply taught, preached, and wrote God’s Word; otherwise I did nothing. And while I slept, or drank Wittenberg beer with my friends Philip and Amsdorf, the Word so greatly weakened the papacy that no prince or emperor ever inflicted such losses upon it. I did nothing; the Word did everything.

Tuesday mornings have a way of making us second-guess ourselves. Our sermons rarely land the way we hoped. We feel the gap between what we intended and what we delivered, and we quietly wonder if any of it mattered. Luther cuts through that fog.

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