Dear Working Preacher
The Foundation of Christian Hope
Preaching on Easter Sunday is both a privilege and a [...]
Craft of Preaching
Dear Working Preacher
Hosanna and Heartache
Palm or Passion. What’s a preacher to do? Likely you have already made that decision, Working Preachers. [...]
Dear Working Preacher
God and the Infinite Void
William Shatner—a.k.a. Captain Kirk from Star Trek and Denny Crane from Boston Legal—has been making [...]
Sermon Development
Twenty Questions to Ask the Text
Although there are many different ways of reading the Bible, [...]
Dear Working Preacher
In-Between Spaces
Dear Working Preacher, Thank you for all that you do to preach the gospel. Thank you for [...]
Dear Working Preacher
To Till It and Keep It?
Though my primary vocation is teaching and learning about the biblical text, as you may remember from [...]
Worship
Poets as Preachers
Congregations love to sing the songs of our faith. But do we recognize this singing as proclaiming [...]
Dear Working Preacher
Reasons to Be Joyful
There are lots of mountains in the Gospel of Matthew. Jesus is tempted by Satan on one [...]
Dear Working Preacher
But I Say to You
“You have heard it said … but I say to you” is a homiletic all its own. [...]