6/2/2008 - 6/5/2008
Luther Seminary - St. Paul, Minn.
Preaching Days is designed to provide preachers encouragement and renewal and to offer a forum for the honing of homiletical skills and processes. Participants will work on texts, deliver sermons, receive feedback on their preaching, and refine their preaching preparation processes.
6/16/2008 - 6/20/2008
Luther Seminary - St. Paul, Minn.
This course will teach worship leaders how to capture attention and present effective worship and educational programs through the use of presentation technologies such as screens, projectors and computers.
7/21/2008 - 7/25/2008
Luther Seminary - St. Paul, Minn.
"They said to each other, 'Were not our hearts burning within us while he was opening the scriptures to us?'" (Luke 24:32)
9/22/2008 - 9/24/2008
Luther Seminary - St. Paul, Minn.
Process preaching is a system for delivering sermons freely without reading a manuscript or simply speaking off the cuff. The system emphasizes the importance of first creating the sermon by writing a full manuscript. Without reading or memorizing the manuscript, preachers are then taught to speak freely what they have written through a specific kind of oral rehearsal.
10/6/2008 - 10/10/2008
Luther Seminary - St. Paul, Minn.
This year's annual lectionary study with members of Luther Seminary's New Testament and preaching faculty is an exegetical examination of the Gospel of Mark. Lectures, and group discussion will help you gain theological insights and preaching ideas for the coming year.
10/13/2008 - 10/14/2008
Luther Seminary - St. Paul, Minn.
The words of Isaiah gave form to the early church's understanding of Jesus Christ, and they continue to be indispensable to proclamation of the gospel message. Using passages that appear in the Revised Common Lectionary from Advent to Epiphany, we will focus on how that rich poetic tradition may speak to the preacher's imagination and illuminate Christian lives, even in the complex social situations of our own time. We will look at specific examples of how Isaiah figured in the civil rights and peace movements in North America and how it is currently used by the Christians of southern Sudan. There will be some opportunity for participants to work on their own ideas for preaching Isaiah.