I have preached lots of evangelistic sermons and many revival services. I have a natural God-given bent toward evangelistic ...

If preaching is a joint conversation with the text, do those of us in the pew hold up our side of the conversation?

The word that keeps coming back is hunger. Scholars talk about it, but so do preachers and parishioners. The reason that preaching is enjoying a revival in churches where it was a dying art, say ...

"My dad used to say, 'I know what happened 2,000 years ago. I need to know how to live my life today.'" These words, from Archbishop Robert J. Carlson of St. Louis, get to the heart of a new proposed ...

When the Rev. Dr. Kelly U. Farrow founded an institute to support Black preachers in 2019, she wasn’t just creating another training program. She was building a movement to sustain and evolve the ...

Karl Barth’s theology grew out of the task of preaching, and he always kept that task in view. In a radio interview not long before his death, he noted, “My whole theology, you see, is fundamentally a ...

I have recently been experimenting with a preaching method that is stretching me like nothing I've done before. To use a phrase from author Fred Lybrand, I have been "preaching on my feet." And this ...

The reports of preaching’s death have been greatly exaggerated. One of the conversations churning recently is that preaching is dead, or perhaps should be. There are folks online and in church and ...

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