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Join Profs. Rolf Jacobson, Karoline Lewis, David Lose, and Matt Skinner,for a conversation around preaching the lectionary texts for Lent 5: Ezekiel 37:1-14 Psalm 130 (5) Romans 8:6-11 John 11:1-45

Join Profs. Karoline Lewis, David Lose, and Matt Skinner,for a conversation around preaching the lectionary texts for Christmas 2: Jeremiah 31:7-14 Psalm 147:12-20 (12) Ephesians 1:3-14 John 1:[1-9], 10-18

Advent is the celebration of God’s coming into the world to save, redeem, and transform what is broken and lost. An important part of Advent, of course, is the celebration of Jesus’ birth. But the (...)

Dear Working Preacher, Kerygma vs. Didache  — do you remember learning that distinction? Since the publication of C.H. Dodd’s Apostolic Preaching and Its Developments  in 1936, the difference between what the church proclaims (kerygma) and (...)

In Matthew 28:16-20, we read about a unique event. Jesus, God incarnate, had lived on the earth for approximately thirty three years and spent a little over three years with his disciples. He poured his (...)

Everyone does a Vigil of Christmas (“Christmas Eve”), and many have Vigils of Easter services. But who has a Vigil of Pentecost service? Yet, we have profound texts appointed for the Vigil of Pentecost and (...)

The task on Reformation Sunday is not to preach Reformation Sunday, nor is it to preach about Luther and his Reformation. Don’t preach Luther nailing the 95 theses to the door of Wittenberg’s Castle Church; (...)

The disciples had heard these words of Jesus concerning the suffering, rejection, dying, and rising of the Son of Man when they were north of Galilee in the villages of Caesarea Philippi (8:31). Peter protested (...)

To preach is to worship. One normally hears about preaching in worship, but preaching is also worship. Before a preacher takes a biblical text for a sermon, s/he should take time to pray because the (...)

Good preaching emerges where the theological horizon of biblical text and the theological horizon of community (parish, locale, nation, globe) come together.1 Necessary for preaching, then, is the exegesis and theological interpretation of both biblical (...)