1/24/2017 5:48 AM
Alphonetta Wines
Even if they haven't written it down, most people have an idea of what they want 2017 to look like, both professionally and personally. With a whole year …
1/22/2017 9:24 PM
Karoline Lewis
Do you really hunger and thirst for righteousness?
Sometimes, perhaps most times, I am not sure. That’s where the Beatitudes hit me this week.
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1/20/2017 2:00 PM
Otis Moss III
Otis Moss III discusses how to approach Mark 5 "from the underground up" when preaching, raising existential, theological and biblical questions.
"Who …
1/17/2017 5:53 AM
Kyndall Rae Rothaus
No one is a prophet because they want to be. If you do not have the reluctance of a biblical prophet, you likely do not have a message from God. If you …
1/15/2017 12:00 PM
Karoline Lewis
Many of you know that early on in Sermon Brainwave history, I became known as the geography maven. I am the one who usually points out in a passage a geographical …
1/13/2017 3:10 PM
Otis Moss III
Dr. Otis Moss III, pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, said, "I think all of us should have prophetic proclivities. You may not see yourself …
1/10/2017 5:15 AM
John Hogenson
I have spent the better part of the last 35 years trying to become a better preacher. I would try to impress my homiletics professors and fellow seminary …
1/8/2017 3:30 PM
Karoline Lewis
“It was about four o'clock in the afternoon.” I have always been curious about this detail, but have never quite known what to do with it. I …
1/6/2017 2:01 PM
Otis Moss III
Dr Otis Moss III of Trinity United Church of Christ said, "You don't have to be like anyone else because no one can be a better you than you."
Listening …
1/5/2017 8:58 PM
Mary Hinkle Shore
The star that led the sages to the Christ child was at once part of the natural world and a wonder. The weeks after the Epiphany call us to notice the wonder …
1/3/2017 5:27 AM
Rachel Wrenn
For this column today, I’d like to take the chance to introduce you to our Sixth Woman.
Anyone who knows me even slightly should already be raising …
1/1/2017 9:12 PM
Karoline Lewis
Preaching on the baptism of Jesus requires a significant amount of homiletical restraint. Our denominational desires tend to lean toward sermons that try …
12/30/2016 3:38 PM
Otis Moss III
Otis Moss III, pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, said: "Frank Thomas said that sermons are born when there is a collision between life …
12/28/2016 5:29 AM
Kathryn M. Schifferdecker
“Preach the Gospel at all times, and if necessary, use words.”
This saying, attributed (apocryphally) to St. Francis, has become popular in …
12/27/2016 5:43 AM
Patricia Tull
The future of environmental well-being seemed hopeful last year to many in faith communities, with the publication of Pope Francis’s encyclical Laudato …