RCL Year A

Dear Working Preacher
Coronavirus, John 9, and What the Church Is Doing Here Anyway

Charismatic and controversial throughout his [...]

Dear Working Preacher
A Deeper Family Story

“Connect to a deeper family story,” urges the website Ancestry.com. For a price, the service will connect [...]

Dear Working Preacher
3:16

Thank you for preaching the good news. The world is so full of bad news, sad news, [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Tending Lent

Two homiletical traps (pun intended) lie in wait when it comes to the story of Jesus’ temptation. [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Overturning Messiah

Those of us who stay up late watching “As Seen on TV” ads may remember seeing the [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Right or Righteous?

You read the text for this week and they sound so familiar. Maybe, you sense the sermon [...]

Worship
Conversion and New Life: Preaching Lent in Year A

Year A immerses the congregation into the captivating readings from [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Shine On, You Working Preachers

You are the light of the world. Not Jesus, but [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Dwell in Possibility

This week brings us a set of familiar, “classic” texts. I suppose that for any congregation that [...]

Dear Working Preacher
A Beautiful Community

Dear Working Preacher, Epiphany greetings to you! And thanks for what you do, preaching the word in [...]