Craft of Preaching

Dear Working Preacher
Dependence Needs

This is one of those texts. Call it difficult, challenging, or even a text of terror, there [...]

Dear Working Preacher
On Seeing Yourself

“We saw someone….” That’s how a lot of judgment starts, doesn’t it? “Teacher, we saw someone casting [...]

Columnist
Job’s Unsettled World and Ours

The biblical patriarch Job, a well-respected community leader, is easy [...]

Dear Working Preacher
The Nature of Faith

What is the nature of faith? That’s kind of what Jesus is asking the disciples with his [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Location Matters

Location, location, location. We know how important location is, but when it comes to interpreting the Bible, [...]

Dear Working Preacher
God Said Yes to Me

Something different, Working Preachers. I want to begin the column this week with a reading that I [...]

Sermon Development
Red Ink and All: Getting in Touch with Your Inner Homiletician Part 5

This is the fifth article [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Heart Tellings

Speaking the truth from your heart. There’s a concept. Welcome back to Mark after five weeks in [...]

Columnist
We’re Losing

We spend so much time and effort on proclamation of the Good News of the love of [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Not Just Bread Anymore

Admit it. You want to go to the party that gets to admit, “This is hard, who [...]