Sermon Development
Bringing Christian Mystics with You into the Pulpit
I took a deep, steadying [...]
Sermon Development
Culture
Sermon Development
Balancing Authority and Curiosity: Homiletics Training from the Theatre
My first career was as [...]
Culture
Sermon Development
Congregational Participation in Preaching: More Than “Now Turn to Your Neighbor…”
I was recently leading a [...]
Sermon Development
Equipping Youth to Share How Service Learning Trips or VBS Shaped Their Faith
Youth ministry is not really [...]
Theology and Interpretation
What All Four Gospels Bring to the Pulpit
Week after week, we preachers are offered a set of [...]
Sermon Development
Why I Preach from the Narrative Lectionary
Scripture tells a story. It tells many stories, in fact, [...]
Sermon Development
Preaching (in the Midst of) Your Own Grief
I spent 10 of my 21 years as a pastor [...]
Sermon Development
The Visual Preacher
Pastor-cartoonist-professor Steve Thomason never “grew out of” drawing. Drawing was his go-to way to play as a [...]
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 [...]
