Dear Working Preacher

Dear Working Preacher
Be Perfect

I am a perfectionist. I know this about myself and people have rarely hesitated to confirm it. [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Choose Life

Choose life (Deuteronomy 30:19). Not as easy as it sounds these days. This rather obvious litmus test [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Just Be It

If you want to know what it’s looked like lately to be the salt of the earth [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Righteous Living

Do you really hunger and thirst for righteousness? Sometimes, perhaps most times, I am not sure. That’s [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Mapping God’s Promises

Many of you know that early on in Sermon Brainwave history, I became known as [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Timely Matters

“It was about four o’clock in the afternoon.” I have always been curious about this detail, but [...]

Dear Working Preacher
You Are All My Beloved

Preaching on the baptism of Jesus requires a significant amount of homiletical restraint. Our denominational desires tend [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Innocence Lost?

Happy New Year, Dear Working Preachers. From different kinds of correspondence with many of you — emails, [...]

Dear Working Preacher
The Meaning of Christmas

Merry Christmas, Dear Working Preachers. I hope you will be forgiving of a rather personal perspective on [...]

Dear Working Preacher
The Good News of God With Us

“God with us” is not always good news. It depends on who you think God [...]