Dear Working Preacher
Just Sit with Me
About once a month or so over morning coffee, I zoom with a former student who is [...]
Spirit
Dear Working Preacher
A Time for Accompaniment
If ever we needed John’s pneumatology, it’s now. Into troubled hearts and heart-wrenching questions; into abandonment and [...]
Dear Working Preacher
A True Pentecost
Pentecost Sunday. A rather troubling misnomer, after all. Because even though we know in theory that the [...]
Columnist
Preaching Immanuel among Cynics
I recently came across a survey asking respondents’ attitudes toward [...]
Videos
Preaching Moment 339: Michael Brown On Preaching in Spirit
Michael Brown talks about preaching [...]
Dear Working Preacher
You Are All My Beloved
Preaching on the baptism of Jesus requires a significant amount of homiletical restraint. Our denominational desires tend [...]
Sermon Development
The Spirit Catches You and You Run and Hide
The title to this article is a riff on the [...]
Dear Working Preacher
Spirit Focus
Happy Pentecost, Dear Working Preachers! At the risk of sounding like the proverbial broken record, are you [...]
Dear Working Preacher
Spirit Feelings
Dear Working Preachers! How many of you were at the Festival of Homiletics this past week? If you [...]
Videos
Preaching Moment 316: Yvette Flunder on Reformation in the Church
Yvette Flunder reflects on the [...]
