On Sunday mornings, some senior members of St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church come together in the movie theater at Oak Terrace Senior Living in Jordan. They would love to worship at their church, ...

Preaching at the Areopagus, they laughed at him. Only a few were converted. Evangelically speaking, Paul’s famous sermon given before the good and the great of Athens was not all that successful.

Can we hear the Gospel message? We have ears, why can we not hear? The Parable of the Sower (Matthew 13:3-9) brings to our attention the fact that not all of us hear the same message when the same ...

Jesus is the mystery that embodied the presence of God in the world. Peter and Paul were charged with conveying that mystery faithfully to the world. Jesus is the Christ, God’s anointed One, while ...

While Paul was preaching this sermon in the church which was in the house of Onesiphorus, a certain virgin named Thecla (whose mother's name was Theoclia, and who was betrothed to a man named Thamyris ...

Evangelical pastors and teachers sometimes assume that preaching from New Testament Epistles is easy. Paul’s first letter to Timothy illustrates the shaky foundation of that assumption. Along with 2 ...

Where does the sermon begin? I am all too familiar with the uneasy staring contest we preachers so often have with our blank screens—cursor blinking, taunting us to write something meaningful. But ...

This is French artist Eustache le Sueur’s depiction of the Apostle Paul preaching in Ephesus. Le Sueur lived from 1617-55. (Courtesy Photo) The Apostle Paul’s third and final missionary journey was ...

Preaching to academics is not always an easy job for any homilist or evangelist and I speak from personal experience here. In Chapter 17 of the Acts of the Apostles we read the account of St. Paul ...