Sermon Development
How to Preach to Mikey (and His Parents)
Working Preachers, does this sound familiar: you’re wheeling your cart [...]
Craft of Preaching
Dear Working Preacher
Resurrection is Relationship
“But these are written so that you may believe…” While many Bibles will title John [...]
Columnist
What Are We Doing for Earth Day?
About a decade ago, while teaching an adult Sunday school [...]
Dear Working Preacher
True Resurrection
I have seen the Lord! There’s your sermon, Working Preachers. It’s hard to imagine a better sermon [...]
Worship
Preaching the Easter Vigil
We gather in old and new ways, and in new and old ways, holding vigil [...]
Dear Working Preacher
Holy Week Grace
You do not have to do it all. Did you hear that, Working Preachers? On this Palm/Passion [...]
Columnist
Tell No One
I don’t spend much time preaching about Jesus’ miracles, for one simple reason: Jesus said not to [...]
Dear Working Preacher
Simultaneous Smells
“Smells are surer than sights or sounds to make your heartstrings crack,” writes Vladimir Nabokov.[i] Damn, is [...]
Dear Working Preacher
Perspective Matters
Let’s rename this story. The Prodigal Son? Doesn’t really work for me. Why? I am not that [...]
Sermon Development
Preach Like an Artist
“A flower is relatively small,” Georgia O’Keeffe once wrote. “Everyone has many associations with a flower — [...]
