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Join Profs. Karoline Lewis, David Lose, and Matt Skinner,for a conversation around preaching the lectionary texts for Epiphany 7: Leviticus 19:1-2, 9-18 Psalm 119:33-40 (33) 1 Corinthians 3:10-11, 16-23 Matthew 5:38-48

Join Profs. Karoline Lewis, David Lose, and Matt Skinner,for a conversation around preaching the lectionary texts for Christmas 1: Isaiah 63:7-9 Psalm 148 (13) Hebrews 2:10-18 Matthew 2:13-23

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 (...)

PREACHING WITH THE CAROLS Singing Christmas carols is itself a form of proclamation, as many of us know from walking around our neighborhood caroling with friends or choir members or a youth group. But it’s (...)

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; (...)

All of this talk about the life of the preacher as a life of worship does not negate the importance of what the preacher proclaims with his or her lips. Thinking about preaching through a (...)

Consider an invitation to the upcoming Thanksgiving dinner. I tell you I’ve found some new recipes I’d like to try out on you because they sound tasty. You arrive at the appointed time and, because (...)

I suspect, unfortunately, that more than just a few working preachers spend only a rather brief period of time in the Scriptures, usually in a single English translation. More time is devoted to commentaries about (...)

When asked how many points a sermon should have, my colleague, Michael Rogness, is fond of saying, “At least one.” In fact, one is just the right number of points for a sermon. Attempting to (...)

The evangelist who wrote the Gospel of Matthew (whom we shall call “Matthew” in spite of his anonymity) was very much interested in the teaching of Jesus. For him, Jesus bears the usual Christological titles (...)