Sometimes, Dear Working Preachers, a biblical text emboldens you, empowers you, encourages you to give witness to your life. This week’s text was …

“A voice of one crying out in the wilderness…”

That, Dear Working Preachers, is what preaching is all about these days. If Matthew held …

Happy Advent, Dear Working Preachers! A new church year. A new Gospel. A new start.

I have always found it interesting that the new church year begins …

Dear Working Preachers, Matthew has been a good homiletical companion this past year. Perhaps, the very Gospel we needed to preach for and into a world …

It is really rather simple. What are you doing with what you have been given? The rub of the parable of course, is to determine with what you have been …

“Hurry up and wait.” Whenever I talk to my mother these days, this somewhat new life circumstance is something she frequently mentions. There …

As Year A, the year of the Gospel of Matthew, winds down, a revisiting of the Beatitudes seems appropriate, timely, even necessary. For those of you preaching …

Dear Working Preachers, happy 500^th Anniversary of the Reformation for some of you! And for others, happy 21^st Sunday after Pentecost! Given those most …

I suspect that many of us might be a bit weary of Matthew by now. And to be honest, I thought I would be as well. But I have had a change of heart these …

A wedding guest without a worthy wardrobe results in being cast out of the party into outer darkness where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth? Clearly, …

So, how are we doing taking care of that vineyard these days? Before we start casting shame and blame on the easy targets in this story and on those around …

“By what authority?”

Well, there’s a good question.

Authority is the question of the day. Or, is it a question of the past?

We live …

This past week I presented at an amazing conference held in Waco, Texas, called “Nevertheless SHE Preached.”

A grassroots event, dreamt by …

“How often should I forgive, Jesus?” Of course, Jesus’ response to Peter’s question doesn’t really provide an answer but rather …

For many churches, this coming Sunday is the start of the fall schedule, a return to the programming and activities that create the hum of the church which …