Communicating deep theological truths in a way that people can meet the Lord. Matt Woodley: This is Matt Woodley, with Monday Morning Preacher, where we talk about all facets of preaching and how we ...

On the first day of our introductory preaching course, my colleague presents a continuum. At one end is the view that the preacher has sole responsibility to make the gospel heard, to get Jesus to ...

Everyone loves a good story. The popularity of Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, and Game of Thrones illustrates the affection most of us have for engaging tales of ...

Amy-Jill Levine, who teaches New Testament and Jewish studies at Vanderbilt, is the author of The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus and coeditor of The Jewish Annotated ...

Did Jesus preach, as best we know? And if he did preach what kinds of things did he preach about? When Jesus speaks, the major verb that is used in the gospel accounts is "to teach...." He teaches his ...

The Shabbat morning service at Congregation Sha’arei Shalom in this suburb of Raleigh has a familiar feel to anyone who grew up in a mainstream American synagogue. Sixty adults and a handful of ...

It’s amazing that it just happened to be Easter Saturday that Telemaco, a former big-leaguer who now is the Pittsburgh Pirates’ Latin America pitching coordinator, went on LinkedIn for the first time ...

(RNS) — At least a dozen churches across the country are hosting Good Friday services this year that feature seven African American female preachers speaking about the last sayings of Jesus. (RNS) — ...

In a recent Instagram post, the controversial personality encourages the American pastor to preach about Jesus. In a recent Instagram post, the Cool FM OAP and convenor of the #free the sheeple ...

The context of Jesus’s defense of marriage is the Pharisee’s defense of a husband’s right to dismiss his wife. We should not be surprised that Jesus defends the ideal of indissolubility found in ...

Matthew probably composed his Gospel account of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus some 40 to 50 years after the events. The earliest generation of preachers and believers were passing away and ...

This Easter Sunday, the holiest day of the Christian calendar, many pastors will start their sermons about the Resurrection of Jesus and weave in a pointed message about racism and bigotry, and the ...