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Fourth Sunday after Epiphany: Blessed are you
Ever notice how Matthew’s Beatitudes hit differently when you include [...]
preaching
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Third Sunday after Epiphany: Preaching the truth
What pushes people to go public with the truth? In [...]
Culture
Sermon Development
Writing for the Ear, Preaching from the Heart
Making connections is at the center of preaching, according to [...]
Sermon Development
Holy Lands, Holy Attention
For almost as long as people have called themselves “Christians,” they have undertaken pilgrimages to [...]
Theology and Interpretation
Preaching Peculiar Passages of Scripture
Over the years, I have placed asterisks next to numerous [...]
Videos
Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost (Ord 28C): Embodied thanksgiving
What if gratitude had steps? [...]
Culture
Sermon Development
Preaching and Neurodiversity
Something changed in my preaching when my church installed a prayground up front in the [...]
Theology and Interpretation
Honest to God Preaching: Talking Sin, Suffering, and Violence
“We only know of Israel’s [...]
Culture
Sermon Development
Empowering Young People as Proclaimers
As preachers, part of our vocation is in helping disciples [...]
Culture
Sermon Development
For Every Matter Under Heaven
Funerals, Weddings, and Preaching into Life’s Many Other Seasons and Circumstances Funeral? Wedding? House blessing? [...]