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We live in the belly of a wounded beast. We conduct our business in the tattered market stalls of Babylon. Can we see it for what it is? You, preacher, are called to give apocalyptic (...)

Commentaries play an important role in the preacher’s exegetical work. Even so, preachers are advised not to let commentaries do their exegetical work. What follows is an assessment of how and why work with commentaries (...)

This is the third article in a series, using insights from Theological Worlds: Understanding the Alternative Rhythms of Christian Belief, by W. Paul Jones (Abingdon: Nashville, 1989) for preaching. Separation from loved ones is one (...)

Each of the texts for Epiphany is superb. There is not one “bummer in the bunch.” As a preacher/servant of the Word, this is a grand season for Biblical preaching. The best resource for sermons (...)

In a new work about the development of the novel, James Wood critiques different novelists about issues which also concern the preacher on All Saints’ Sunday: Namely, characters, details and plot. Wood examines the influences (...)

Present-Tense Preaching Bonhoeffer’s interest in the capacity of biblical preaching to encounter hearers in their present existence helps to explain what often strikes contemporary preachers as one of the more curious aspects of his understanding (...)

In the spring of 1938, a young pastor and theologian by the name of Dietrich Bonhoeffer preached to a group of youth about to be confirmed and their sponsors and congregation in Pomerania. Based on (...)

Theology of Preaching: The preacher’s understanding of the kind of theological event or transaction with God taking place during preaching. Theologies of preaching ask questions such as: What is God doing during the sermon? What (...)

I love “food movies.” Chocolat, Big Night, Babette’s Feast (my favorite)–I will go out of my way to see these and other movies where food plays a central role. Perhaps that’s simply because I love (...)

“Oh no, I’ve preached on this text a hundred times! What can I say now?” What preacher hasn’t thought that?  Our present three-year lectionary is a vast improvement over the old one-year lectionary.  Still, many (...)