I had been preaching for more than two decades, and I should have been at the top of my game. The church I served ran up to 1,500 on Sunday mornings, and the live telecast of our services covered a ...

A few years ago I started to get a lot of affirmation for my preaching. People were listening, worship attendance was growing, and I was overhearing parishioners describe me as a good preacher. Soon ...

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 ...

(RNS) — In ‘A Will to Preach,’ one of the most effective preachers in the English-speaking world, according to a Baylor University survey, shows how a master craftsman approaches the task. (RNS) — ...

It was in 1910, when I was transferred from Crossen on the Oder to Danzig, that I really found out what preaching meant. I had gone to Danzig very reluctantly. The Reformed congregation to which I was ...

It’s been more than a year since I’ve seen my congregants in person. More than a year since we held our last in-person church service, since I’ve visited a congregant in the hospital, held a dying ...

That's a question that's been on my mind since the pastors at my church attended a convention, and I agreed to preach in their absence. The gospel was from Luke 24. Luke writes that Jesus showed his ...

As a new teacher, I often did more preaching than teaching. Sometimes my preaching came in the form of “you can do it” speeches. Other times I lectured students about the work habits of successful ...

Dear Amy: I am a 60-year-old conservative Catholic male. I believe that gender is determined by physiology, not psychology. I don’t believe transitioning to another gender is the answer to gender ...