Essays on Preaching

What is it to perform the Word? Is it to speak about it, to retell it, to illustrate it, to enlighten it? What?

We encounter the triune God in various ways and unexpected places, at countless moments of our daily lives.

Wrestling alone puts us always at a disadvantage and every wrestling face-off needs a referee. Pastors are called to be such referees for their people.

Let us move beyond the milk and onto solid food — the meat of biblical, creedal, confessional theology in our preaching.

What preacher’s deliver to their hearers is not just one or another gift, a present or two that enriches life. Preachers also deliver the very presence of the Lord.