5/10/2020 2:36 PM
Karoline Lewis
If ever we needed John’s pneumatology, it’s now.
Into troubled hearts and heart-wrenching questions; into abandonment and loss; into despair …
6/3/2019 11:05 AM
Karoline Lewis
Happy Pentecost, Dear Working Preachers!
If you have been reading my column these past years or are a regular listener of Sermon Brainwave, you can probably …
5/14/2018 5:06 PM
Karoline Lewis
Pentecost Sunday. A rather troubling misnomer, after all. Because even though we know in theory that the Spirit was never meant to be contained to one Sunday …
12/12/2017 12:00 AM
Nathan Aaseng
I recently came across a survey asking respondents’ attitudes toward Christmas. The vast majority of those surveyed disagreed with the sentiment that …
6/23/2017 9:31 AM
Michael B. Brown
Michael Brown talks about preaching "in the Spirit mode" wherein the preacher throws oneself into the lesson and can actually take a journey wherein "the …
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 …
6/21/2016 7:00 AM
Rachel Wrenn
The title to this article is a riff on the 1997 book The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman. It’s the story, ultimately, …
5/8/2016 12:00 PM
Karoline Lewis
Happy Pentecost, Dear Working Preachers! At the risk of sounding like the proverbial broken record, are you ready for preaching this Sunday that celebrates …
5/17/2015 12:00 PM
Karoline Lewis
Dear Working Preachers! How many of you were at the Festival of Homiletics this past week? If you were not able to attend, I hope to see you next year …
5/2/2015 6:20 AM
Yvette Flunder
Yvette Flunder reflects on the current state of Christianity in the US and sees in it a moment of reformation being worked by the Spirit.
"What we are …
2/28/2015 6:18 AM
Yvette Flunder
Yvette Flunder describes how the preacher and the hearers are united together by the Spirit in the experience of the preached word.
"We may not be holding …
1/3/2015 6:34 AM
Eric Elnes
Eric Elnes reflects on the place of the sermon in the context of the worship service and explores worship's purpose of opening people up to the Spirit. …
11/15/2014 6:37 AM
Eric Elnes
Eric Elnes shares his understanding of the place of the sermon in the worship service and advocates for broadening the focus of worship from the sermon …
11/4/2014 5:19 AM
Kae Evensen
Back in seminary, and when I teach preaching, we emphasized over and over again to our students the importance of taking time to prepare and craft a sermon …
10/14/2014 5:12 AM
Nathan Aaseng
We are looking for you, Holy Spirit.
We block off some time to spend with the lectionary text for this Sunday, looking for you. We search for you in and …