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 ...

Sermons are like fresh vegetables: best consumed close to the garden. They tend to lose their taste when packaged for the mass market. These sermons collected from the days after September 11 were ...

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

Every now and then, you deliver a sermon that when you leave the lectern you haven’t the foggiest idea how those words you just preached landed with those sitting in the pews. It happens to all of us ...

In 2014, amid a bruising fight over the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO), the city of Houston subpoenaed sermons from five pastors opposed to the nondiscrimination proposal. City attorneys were ...

“They that walked in darkness sang songs in the olden days—Sorrow Songs—for they were weary at heart … a haunting echo of these weird old songs in which the soul of the black slave spoke to men. Ever ...

This feature is only available to members. Join now for full online access. The history of preaching with its procession of personalities and schools of preaching is as rich and as complex as the ...

“All things work for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose” (Rom 8:28). The glory of Jesus lights up his entire family tree. Everyone participates in the mystery of his ...