Sermon Development

Sermon Development
The Spirit Catches You and You Run and Hide

The title to this article is a riff on the [...]

Sermon Development
Preaching through Congregational Conflict

People who have an idealistic view of the church are [...]

Sermon Development
How to Preach to Mikey (and His Parents)

Working Preachers, does this sound familiar: you’re wheeling your cart [...]

Sermon Development
Preach Like an Artist

“A flower is relatively small,” Georgia O’Keeffe once wrote. “Everyone has many associations with a flower — [...]

Sermon Development
Red Ink and All: Getting in Touch with Your Inner Homiletician Part 5

This is the fifth article [...]

Sermon Development
Enabling the One Great Preacher to Preach: Getting in Touch with Your Inner Homiletician Part 4

This is the fourth article [...]

Sermon Development
Retooling the Purposes of Preaching: Getting in Touch with Your Inner Homiletician Part 3

This is the third article [...]

Sermon Development
Panic before Pulpit, Every Time

Preaching at its best must cultivate a relationship with panic. [...]

Sermon Development
Preaching to (and Caring for) Vets: Memorial Day and Beyond

On Monday, May 25, 2015, [...]

Sermon Development
Gaining Perspective: Getting in Touch with Your Inner Homiletician, Part 2

This is the second article [...]