Craft of Preaching

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Dear Working Preacher
An Uncontrollable Calling

In recent years, various responses to employment related stress and expectations have trended online. These [...]

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Sermon Development
How to Get Useful Sermon Feedback from Listeners: 5 Keys for Success 

It’s the end of the [...]

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Worship
‘It’s Your Day!’: Preaching on a Congregation’s Milestones

My Anglican parish in a [...]

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Dear Working Preacher
A Community of Honesty and Hope

I’ve just spent the week in Custer State Park. Well, [...]

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Dear Working Preacher
Preparing for a Different Reality

Looks like we made it! To the other side of [...]

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Culture
When Good News Is Harder to Proclaim: Preaching Amid Trauma

Mass trauma is an unfortunate [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Telling the Truth

The prophet Jeremiah got pretty tired of having to be the one to tell the truth. In [...]

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Dear Working Preacher
Pure Gospel

As you know, Working Preacher, a sermon might do many things: inspire, challenge, inform, and even entertain [...]

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Culture
Saying Goodbye in the Sermon

There is an old adage that defines the only certainties in life as death and [...]