Craft of Preaching

Dear Working Preacher
Desperate

Dear Working Preacher, Narrative time bombs. That’s what Eugene Peterson once described parables as, and I think [...]

Sermon Development
Preaching from a Manuscript is Not Heresy

I have a recurring nightmare in which I am in [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Your Most Important Sermon

Dear Working Preacher, Would you believe me if I told you that the sermon you [...]

Videos
Preaching Moment 128: Michael Curry

on preachers who have been “born of God”

Culture
The Inherent Moral Worth of a Pelican

One of the most poignant images to emerge from the [...]

Columnist
Changing Words

For the last few years, I’ve spent a lot of time talking. Sermons, funerals, Bible studies, Confirmation [...]

Theology and Interpretation
Sometimes “The Point” Is Beside The Point

I must confess a prejudice. [...]

Dear Working Preacher
More Than Good Advice [or] Why Jesus Gets Killed, Pt. 2

Dear Working Preacher, If there [...]

Videos
Preaching Moment 127: Paul Scott Wilson

Paul Scott Wilson on understanding the “literal, allegorical, and theological” [...]

Columnist
A Week Without Faith

I just got back from vacation. I spent a week almost entirely free of faith, and I [...]