Month: October 2009

Videos
Preaching Moment 83: Anna Carter Florence

What difference does it make if we invite our congregations [...]

Worship
Proclaiming the resurrection of the dead in the All Saints Sunday liturgy

“Preach always. Use words only [...]

Theology and Interpretation
“I’m no saint!”

“I’m no saint!” How often have you heard that self-deprecating pronouncement? The idea underneath this statement may [...]

Theology and Interpretation
A Hermeneutics of Struggle

What do we do with the difficult texts that make us cringe so much to [...]

Sermon Development
Singing on All Saints Sunday

It happened again a couple of weeks ago: In the middle of a funeral sermon [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Life, Death, and the Task of Preaching

Dear Working Preacher, What you do matters! I know I’ve [...]

Videos
Preaching Moment 82: Tom Long

Tom Long reflects on the place rhetoric currently has in our society and how recent [...]

Columnist
Knuckleball Approach to Children’s Sermons

Children’s Time in the service is a control freak’s worst [...]

Theology and Interpretation
Preaching the Reformation? Or the Reformation Message?

The task on Reformation Sunday [...]