Craft of Preaching

Videos
Preaching Moment 74: Eugene Peterson

Eugene Peterson talks about his work in a congregation and [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Preaching Amid Controversy: Pastoral and Homiletical Counsel

Dear Working Preacher, What you [...]

Videos
Preaching Moment 73: Melinda Quivik

Melinda Quivik invites the preacher to take his/her congregation on [...]

Columnist
Sharing the Piece

A few years after Linda and I were married, we rented a cabin way up in the [...]

Videos
Preaching Moment 72: Michael Curry

On what hearers remember from a sermon. Would you like [...]

Theology and Interpretation
The Holy Spirit

Many of us leave experiences of the Spirit to other people– enthusiasts, charismatics, and mystics. We may [...]

Columnist
Jesus Loves Bread and Ashes

God loves doing things that surprise us. …Not in that creepy stand behind doorways “gotcha” [...]

Culture
Puplit Plagiarism

The year before I enrolled in seminary I taught at a prep school in Indiana. In mid-April [...]

Theology and Interpretation
Reading Texts for the Sake of Hearing the Gospel

“I am increasingly struck that much biblical interpretation occurs without [...]

Sermon Development
Keeping the Word Central

A friend of mine often jokes that he likes to read the biblical text because it sheds [...]