Three links, two of which are worth checking

First, John Drury's sermonette here is biblical theology exemplified. Textually faithful; historically informed; theologically implicatory...

This essay is my own attempt to engage in the practice. You'll see the readers haven't always thought the attempt successful! :)

Third, Peter Leithart highlights a text that I think is quite pertinent to our talks on sanctification. The text is on Jesus' command to give, fast, and pray in private. Our enlightenment/pietist eyes have emphasized the "inner nature" of the faith: we fast in secret so that our actions are genuine and of good motive. We cannot fall prey to praise if secrecy is the format! However, much more is going on. In praying/giving/fasting in secret, Jesus' followers have not closed the public door and opened the door of the heart, they have set themselves apart, or "sanctified themselves," from the religious life of the time. This is a sanctification that would be noticed--by participants and contemporaries alike.