Sermon Development
Blessings Precede You
In my last Working Preacher article, “How to Preach the News without Drowning,” I encouraged preachers to [...]
Craft of Preaching
Culture
Preaching Thankful
O Thanksgiving, how is it that every year you sneak up on us so quickly? I would [...]
Dear Working Preacher
A Year in Perspective
Dear Working Preachers, Matthew has been a good homiletical companion this past year. Perhaps, the very Gospel [...]
Sermon Development
Preaching Mark in Times of Strife (Part 2 of 2)
In the first article of this two-part series, the author [...]
Sermon Development
Preaching Mark in Times of Strife (Part 1 of 2)
Just in time. The Gospel according to Mark is about [...]
Dear Working Preacher
Entrustment
It is really rather simple. What are you doing with what you have been given? The rub [...]
Theology and Interpretation
Preaching + Fertility Struggles
Advent brings the sense of delighted expectation that Jesus, God’s [...]
Dear Working Preacher
Hurry Up and Wait
“Hurry up and wait.” Whenever I talk to my mother these days, this somewhat new life circumstance [...]
Dear Working Preacher
Words For A Time Such As This
As Year A, the year of the Gospel of Matthew, winds down, a revisiting of [...]
Dear Working Preacher
Freedom and Obligation
Dear Working Preachers, happy 500th Anniversary of the Reformation for some of you! And for others, happy [...]