Can I Get an Amen?: A Survey of Homiletic Strategies that Engage the Listener “Did you see that?” “Did you notice the look on his face?”...

First person preaching is an approach that takes one of the characters from the Bible, from Church History, from the communion of Saints...

In 1940, my Uncle Ray, a young Methodist pastor, was named interim pastor of a thriving community in Kansas, an assignment that usually...

This article was published in "Preach" Magazine, which alas, had a short publication run and no longer exists. Since there is no one to...

I had a brother who wasn’t from my family. We worked a ranch down by the border where the rain clouds aren’t ever seen. Ol’ Rocko got...

As we approach the Feast of the Transfiguration, it may serve us well to revisit “generic homilies.” Texts in multiple attestation...

During the pandemic, pastors who may have preached a dozen funeral homilies over the course of typical year, are now presiding over...

In “Preaching as a Social Act,” Don Wardlaw offers a homiletic schema that includes three over-lapping spheres: the world of the Bible,...

In 2013, Pope Francis spoke to the Holy See Diplomatic Corps, saying, “One of the titles of the Bishop of Rome is Pontiff-- that is, a...

God’s Word offers space to explore, not lessons to bore. Keeping an eye out for the three-dimension properties of a biblical text enables...