Craft of Preaching

Preaching Series
Forming Communities of Resistance: A 4-week preaching series

Ed. note: Don’t miss last week’s article [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Hashtag VIP?

Here’s a headline that captured my attention: Stop working on your personal brand—you’re wasting your time.1 The [...]

Theology and Interpretation
Read Before Preaching: Forming Communities of Resistance (2 of 3)

Ed. note: This is the [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Liberating Sabbath

Luke closely associates Jesus’ public ministry with both the sabbath and the synagogue, beginning already in Luke [...]

Preaching Series
A Thriving Community of Resistance (1 of 3)

“Liberation is not a catch phrase—but is at the heart [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Jesus’ Ministry of Fire

If consensus exists around anything today in American society, it is that we are afflicted [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Sleeping with Makeup On

I read recently that Dolly Parton leaves her makeup on all night when she’s away from home. [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Poor Fool

This is one of those weeks when preachers find a text pretty easy to interpret but the [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Who Taught You How to Pray?

It’s a very personal, intimate thing, one’s prayer life. Getting started at praying is less [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Now Is the Time

Be careful with this one, Dear Working Preachers. The story of Mary and Martha in Luke’s Gospel [...]