Month: November 2011

Dear Working Preacher
Just the Beginning

Dear Working Preacher, How could we have missed this? Actually, it’s not quite that simple. Most of [...]

Videos
Preaching Moment 195: Walter Wangerin Jr.

Walter Wangerin Jr. on retelling and refreshing a story.

Worship
Preaching Advent’s Absurdity

Advent is an exercise in paradox. For four weeks, we [...]

Columnist
A Guide to Good Preaching

Over the past few weeks there have been some extremely interesting conversations going on in [...]

Videos
Preaching Moment 194: Kenneth Samuel

Kenneth Samuel discusses the challenge of preaching to congregations that [...]

Dear Working Preacher
If the World Were to End

Dear Working Preacher, What would you do if the world were to end tomorrow? If you’re thinking [...]

Columnist
Stewardship Refund

For those preaching stewardship this month, I came across a reading in Exodus that I’ve never heard [...]

Videos
Preaching Moment 193: Anna Carter Florence

Anna Carter Florence on the preacher’s hope for what happens [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Sheep and Goats and Judgment, Oh My

Dear Working Preacher, Do you ever read a passage and [...]

Columnist
Okay, I Have No Friends but I Do Have Good News

Last week in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, there was a small [...]