Dear Working Preacher
A Trinitarian Difference
Trinity Sunday is a hard one to figure out. Any sermon that tries to explain the Trinity [...]
Craft of Preaching
Dear Working Preacher
Spirit Work
This year’s Festival of Homiletics in San Antonio — and great to see so many of you [...]
Columnist
Weightier Matters: Faith, Justice, and Mercy
As I prepare this month’s column, the scripture that refuses [...]
Dear Working Preacher
The Power of Prayer
How quickly do we pass over the prayers of Jesus and choose the commands of Jesus so [...]
Dear Working Preacher
A Paraclete Kind of Life
Dear Working Preachers, I absolutely love this passage in John. Ok, I know what you are thinking [...]
Dear Working Preacher
Saying Goodbye
When you have to say goodbye, what do you say? It depends on the situation, of course; [...]
Sermon Development
Give Them a Story
The story of God’s love incarnate in Jesus Christ is often referred to as the greatest story [...]
Dear Working Preacher
Abundant Life
What is abundant life? How would you define it? Accomplishment in some such measurable constructs? Success in [...]
Dear Working Preacher
What Things?
This is one long road trip. By long, I don’t mean how many miles. Many of us [...]
Theology and Interpretation
Not A Safe God
I am often asked, as I was this past Sunday at a church gathering, what is the [...]
