Craft of Preaching

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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 [...]

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Dear Working Preacher
Followed by the Lord of All

Dear Working Preacher, Thank you for what you do to preach the gospel. Thank you [...]

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Preaching Series
Messy Ancestors for a Messy World: Year A Semi-continuous First Readings

Editor’s Note: This article provides [...]

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Dear Working Preacher
Creeping Things, Innumerable

My friends, it is tick season here on the farm and so trips outside to [...]

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Culture
On Moral Complexity: The Preaching Veterans Need to Hear

I’ve been asked to comment [...]

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Dear Working Preacher
Just Sit with Me

About once a month or so over morning coffee, I zoom with a former student who is [...]

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Dear Working Preacher
What Do These Stones Mean?

When I look at this week’s appointed lectionary texts, I have trouble seeing past all [...]

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Dear Working Preacher
Teaching, Fellowship, Breaking of Bread, and Prayers

Dear Working Preacher, Alleluia, Christ [...]

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Dear Working Preacher
Tell the Rest of the Story

Dear Working Preachers, It seems every week there is a headline or a happening that [...]