On the first day of our introductory preaching course, my colleague presents a continuum. At one end is the view that the preacher has sole responsibility to make the gospel heard, to get Jesus to ...

Sermons are like fresh vegetables: best consumed close to the garden. They tend to lose their taste when packaged for the mass market. These sermons collected from the days after September 11 were ...

Every now and then, you deliver a sermon that when you leave the lectern you haven’t the foggiest idea how those words you just preached landed with those sitting in the pews. It happens to all of us ...

What’s the hardest part of writing a sermon? It’s a tough question because there are so many challenging aspects of preaching—exegesis, outlines, illustrations, delivery, etc. But based on my pastoral ...

In 2014, amid a bruising fight over the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO), the city of Houston subpoenaed sermons from five pastors opposed to the nondiscrimination proposal. City attorneys were ...

The word that keeps coming back is hunger. Scholars talk about it, but so do preachers and parishioners. The reason that preaching is enjoying a revival in churches where it was a dying art, say ...

“They that walked in darkness sang songs in the olden days—Sorrow Songs—for they were weary at heart … a haunting echo of these weird old songs in which the soul of the black slave spoke to men. Ever ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — It turns out the 2016 presidential candidates haven’t just been preaching to the choir in all those debates. Americans have fallen into three camps when it comes to watching the ...

“All things work for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose” (Rom 8:28). The glory of Jesus lights up his entire family tree. Everyone participates in the mystery of his ...