Volume 13, Number 3 The Sermon as Outreach: Preaching the Law We preachers, who constantly study and talk about the distinction between law and gospel, are tempted to make sermons into lessons on that distinction ...
Volume 13, Number 2 The Sermon in Worship: Preaching with Partners Whether we’re preaching as outreach or as nurture, we preach most often in a setting called public worship. The setting is going to influence ...
Volume 13, Number 1 Preaching: It's Worship, It's Outreach This volume of Preach the Word will focus on both aspects of preaching: preaching as part of public worship and preaching as an act of evangelism. ...
Volume 12, Number 6 A Funny Thing Happen on the Way to Church: The Use of Humor in the Pulpit Many feel that humor has a place in Christian sermons. Others would caution that humor ...
Volume 12, Number 5 Continuing Education for Preachers: Moving Beyond Comfortable Competency It is a temptation in virtually every profession: Many fail to move beyond competence toward excellence. If ever there was a profession to ...
Volume 12, Number 4 PowerPoint in the Pulpit It boggles the mind to think how rapidly technology has advanced in the past couple of decades. These advances have impacted our lives, including our preaching. Powerpoint ...
Volume 12, Number 3 Preaching in a Mission Setting Pastor Merton contrasts serving a congregation with a thousand communicant members to service in a mission congregation with twelve communicants meeting in a classroom. Read More ...
Volume 12, Number 2 A Painful Privilege: Proclaiming Law and Gospel Effectively at a Funeral One of the privileges serving in the parish ministry affords is preparing and preaching funeral sermons. Some funeral sermons are ...
Volume 12, Number 1 Running Out of Things to Preach On? “I’m so glad I don’t serve as a minister of a local congregation. I’d run out of things to preach on!” That statement surely ...
Volume 11, Number 6 Now Vajda is one of those authors whose hymns I sing thinking, “Ï wish I could preach like that.”… You may not possess his same gifts, or in the same bounty ...
