Month: April 2018

Dear Working Preacher
Abide In My Love

Dear Working Preachers, so much in this passage on which to preach! Joy, love one another, laying [...]

Sermon Development
We Need to Talk

Dear Preachers, We need to talk. And by “we,” — I mean, you and me. For far [...]

Dear Working Preacher
On Withering

“Whoever does not abide in me is thrown away like a branch and withers; such branches are [...]

Theology and Interpretation
Psalms that Reflect on Human Life

Three truths about humans living within a wider created world [...]

Dear Working Preacher
On Being the Good Shepherd

What does “good” mean? An ambiguous adjective is a rather uncomfortable affair. One person’s “good” [...]

Sermon Development
Preaching + Trauma

[This article is co-authored by Jessica Davis.] “They cried to the Lord in their trouble, and Ze [...]

Columnist
Returning Gifts

This month, I invite you to explore with me a time-honored, traditional stewardship approach that has made [...]

Dear Working Preacher
We Are Witnesses

“You are witnesses of these things” (Luke 24:48). Notice, Dear Working Preachers, Jesus’ address to the disciples [...]

Dear Working Preacher
When Seeing is Believing

What is it that we need to see to believe? To believe that death has indeed been [...]