Year B

Dear Working Preacher
“What Is This?”

“They kept on asking each other, what is this? A new teaching?” There’s the rub of the [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Epiphany Preaching

Every three years, when Year B rolls around in the lectionary, my podcast co-hosts and I inevitably [...]

Simeon at the temple
Dear Working Preacher
Blessing and Opposition

Then Simeon blessed Mary and said, among other things, “your child is destined to be a sign [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Wilderness Preaching

“A voice of one crying out in the wilderness…” That, Dear Working Preachers, is what preaching is [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Advent Time

Happy Advent, Dear Working Preachers! A new church year. A new Gospel. A new start. I have [...]

Sermon Development
Preaching Mark in Times of Strife (Part 2 of 2)

In the first article of this two-part series, the author [...]

Sermon Development
Preaching Mark in Times of Strife (Part 1 of 2)

Just in time. The Gospel according to Mark is about [...]

Dear Working Preacher
Kings of Relationship

“My kingdom is not from this world,” says Jesus. No kidding. That seems pretty obvious. Yet at [...]

Dear Working Preacher
The Ability of Ableness

“We are able.” Wow. We are so certain, aren’t we? We think we are capable of so [...]

Dear Working Preacher
The Thing You Lack

“You lack one thing.” Ouch. I fear I lack much more than one thing, do you? But [...]