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12 mins read|08/19/23Those fifteen minutes in the pulpit are a labor of love on behalf of God’s people. You are trying to cook up something that will satisfy, if not delight, and not just homiletic milkshakes but solid, Scriptural steaks.
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13 mins read|08/05/23The gift of publicly serving as minister of God’s Word for the people we are called to serve brings us endless blessings, but like many blessings it brings also the sense of responsibility that takes seriously the challenge of accurate communication of what the Lord is saying to us from the pages of Scripture.
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9 mins read|07/31/23In the pulpit a preacher who is making eye contact, preaching by heart, speaking “to” you and not merely “at” you, you feel like you can trust this guide.
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9 mins read|07/22/23Preaching justification by faith should not exclude the truth of regeneration, as if justification were an altogether separate phenomenon that took place sometime before and regeneration taking place later.
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11 mins read|07/15/23The castaway senses he needs something more. And what he needs more, much more, than mere help with acclimating himself to life on the island is a message which transcends the island.
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12 mins read|07/02/23Preaching ought, therefore, to be regarded not as the second-class stepsister to academic theology, but as its pioneering elder brother.
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20 mins read|06/24/23In order to respect both liturgical consistency and the role of the homilist in the drama of the Divine Service: Let the pulpit be for proclamation, not personal prayer.
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15 mins read|06/17/23Whenever you preach the Word of God, with whatever preparation, it is evermore the Spirit who preaches.
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16 mins read|06/10/23These poets are gifts of God, and it is only good homiletical stewardship to use them for all they are worth.
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15 mins read|06/04/23Too often sermons are like treadmills: Lots of work that takes us nowhere. Better for your sermon to be like an escalator: Move your people onward and upward in faith.
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11 mins read|05/20/23Preachers, just because there is a placeholder carved out right there in the liturgy which says SERMON, that does not give us license to blather.
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14 mins read|05/13/23If Easter is about Jesus as the prototype of the new creation, then the Ascension is about His enthronement as the One who rules forevermore on Earth as it is in Heaven.
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