Month: June 2016

Culture
Finding Dory, Finding Church

Somewhere between the top shelf of Pixar masterpieces (Wall-E, The Incredibles, a few others, though [...]

Dear Working Preacher
The Security of Seventy

The mission of the seventy is no mission I could ever imagine accepting. It sounds more like [...]

Sermon Development
The Spirit Catches You and You Run and Hide

The title to this article is a riff on the [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Every Moment Counts

When I started thinking about the DWP column for this week, my first response was, Sorry, Jesus. [...]

Columnist
Reading Scripture with Creation

When pastors and Bible study participants seek a stronger ecological [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Naked No More

This past week I taught the Core 1 course in Luther Seminary’s Doctor of Ministry in Biblical [...]

Columnist
Whose God is This Anyway?

Does anyone else get uncomfortable proclaiming things like “How Great is Our God” or “Our [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Your Faith Has Saved You

“Your faith has saved you.” As one of my dear friends is fond of saying, “Put that [...]