Dear Working Preacher
What Do You Lack?
“You lack one thing.” There is great irony in Jesus’ statement, isn’t there? We can likely assume [...]
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Dear Working Preacher
The Divorce Text
There are certain texts that once read out loud in worship, in the midst of a faith [...]
Dear Working Preacher
Who Do You Say that I Am?
“Who do you say that I am?” is a much harder question than we think [...]
Dear Working Preacher
A Tyre Mentality
It seems that no one can keep quiet when in the presence of God, as much as [...]
Dear Working Preacher
Searching the Heart
No one is exempt from a strong searching of the heart. That’s the first thing that we [...]
Dear Working Preacher
A Sabbath Perspective
This past week was the 26th Festival of Homiletics in Washington, D.C., “Preaching and Politics.” An appropriate [...]
Dear Working Preacher
On Withering
“Whoever does not abide in me is thrown away like a branch and withers; such branches are [...]
Dear Working Preacher
On Being the Good Shepherd
What does “good” mean? An ambiguous adjective is a rather uncomfortable affair. One person’s “good” [...]
Dear Working Preacher
We Are Witnesses
“You are witnesses of these things” (Luke 24:48). Notice, Dear Working Preachers, Jesus’ address to the disciples [...]
Dear Working Preacher
When Seeing is Believing
What is it that we need to see to believe? To believe that death has indeed been [...]