Craft of Preaching

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Videos
All Saints Sunday: Cloud of witnesses

Standing at a Bible camp in North Dakota, Karoline Lewis [...]

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Videos
Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost (Ord 30C): A prophet who celebrates worship

Rolf Jacobson reflects on Joel [...]

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Theology and Interpretation
Preaching Peculiar Passages of Scripture

Over the years, I have placed asterisks next to numerous [...]

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Videos
Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost: Steady, faithful work

Matt Skinner reflects on Luke [...]

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Culture
Preaching the Headlines

Preaching the Headlines is not actually about preaching on the headlines at all, but about determining what [...]

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Videos
Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Ord 28C): Embodied thanksgiving

What if gratitude had steps? [...]

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Videos
Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost (Ord 27C): What Faith Looks Like

Ever feel like justice is [...]

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Videos
Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Ord 26C): Walls and neighbors

“We build walls when we [...]

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Videos
Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Ord 25C): God’s total commitment

Karoline Lewis dropped some serious [...]

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Culture
Sermon Development
Preaching and Neurodiversity

Something changed in my preaching when my church installed a prayground up front in the [...]