Preaching

Frank Thomas on the Power of African-American Preaching

“How is it that you can take a group of people who are in despair and when you get finished preaching the gospel, they have hope?” This question sent Frank Thomas down a path that led him nearly forty years later to create the first PhD program in African-American preaching.

April 10, 2019 | 8 min read
Frank Thomas on the Power of African-American Preaching

“How is it that you can take a group of people who are in despair and when you get finished preaching the gospel, they have hope?” This question sent Frank Thomas down a path that led him nearly forty years later to create the first PhD program in African-American preaching.

April 10, 2019 | 8 min read


Five Things I Love about My Preaching Peer Group

A young pastor calls his preaching peer group “a funeral and a pep rally in the same ninety minutes.” Find out why.

February 6, 2019 | 5 min read
Five Things I Love about My Preaching Peer Group

A young pastor calls his preaching peer group “a funeral and a pep rally in the same ninety minutes.” Find out why.

February 6, 2019 | 5 min read
Amanda Benckhuysen on Preaching from the Minor Prophets

Most congregations have never heard a sermon preached from the prophetic books of Nahum or Obadiah. Other than a few choice passages in Jeremiah or Isaiah, the major prophets are mainly ignored too. That means worshipers are missing out on more than a quarter of inspired Scripture.

December 12, 2018 | 7 min read

Amanda Benckhuysen on Preaching from the Minor Prophets

Most congregations have never heard a sermon preached from the prophetic books of Nahum or Obadiah. Other than a few choice passages in Jeremiah or Isaiah, the major prophets are mainly ignored too. That means worshipers are missing out on more than a quarter of inspired Scripture.

December 12, 2018 | 7 min read
John McClure on How Liturgical Practices Can Shape Conversations in a Pluralistic World

Christian liturgical practices—confession, intercession, and preaching—contain wisdom that can bring compassion and consensus to public conversations around contentious moral issues.

December 4, 2018 | 5 min read
John McClure on How Liturgical Practices Can Shape Conversations in a Pluralistic World

Christian liturgical practices—confession, intercession, and preaching—contain wisdom that can bring compassion and consensus to public conversations around contentious moral issues.

December 4, 2018 | 5 min read