Dear Working Preacher

Dear Working Preacher
A Year in Perspective

Dear Working Preachers, Matthew has been a good homiletical companion this past year. Perhaps, the very Gospel [...]

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Dear Working Preacher
Entrustment

It is really rather simple. What are you doing with what you have been given? The rub [...]

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Dear Working Preacher
Hurry Up and Wait

“Hurry up and wait.” Whenever I talk to my mother these days, this somewhat new life circumstance [...]

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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 [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Loyalties

I suspect that many of us might be a bit weary of Matthew by now. And to [...]

Dear Working Preacher
What Not To Wear

A wedding guest without a worthy wardrobe results in being cast out of the party into outer [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Caring for the Kingdom of Heaven

So, how are we doing taking care of that vineyard [...]

Dear Working Preacher
True Authority

“By what authority?” Well, there’s a good question. Authority is the question of the day. Or, is [...]

Dear Working Preacher
A Beatitude Kind of World

This past week I presented at an amazing conference held in Waco, Texas, called “Nevertheless [...]