For eighteen years I preached through the Bible. I began at the first verse in Genesis and continued through the last verse in the Revelation. Where I left off in the morning, I picked up in the ...

This article originally appeared in our December 9, 1966, issue. For eighteen years I preached through the Bible. I began at the first verse in Genesis and continued through the last verse in the ...

It was a well-written homily. It reflected on the Gospel for the Sunday (the parables of the lost sheep, the lost coin and the lost, i.e., prodigal son) and developed a contemporary application: do we ...

We talk, we read, we write, we listen. We surround ourselves with print on paper and walls and screens. We surround ourselves with sounds-making-words that convey meaning and images. Except for the ...

People around the world spend their Sunday mornings in church services praying and worshipping, listening intently to their pastor's words. Each week pastors deliver a sermon or message to their ...

Protestant churches have always prided themselves on their preaching and music, especially non-Eucharistic churches that rely on the Bible alone to shape their Sunday services. At the other end of the ...

The idea of preaching without Scripture may seem preposterous, but I suggest it just the same, as a way of drawing attention to a little known, much less accepted, mainline teaching of the Roman ...

“Hi, my name is Average Christian, and I am bored in most church services because the preaching is boring.” So writes Michael Greiner on the blog “Preaching As War” in part one of a series of posts ...