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With this issue, Preaching begins its tenth year. Since most publications never see their fifth birthday, we're particularly proud to be looking at ten. Besides, I figure the more attention I pay to Preaching's... Continue Reading...

Jerry tried to fix the dishwasher Sunday morning, but he left it in pieces to put on his shirt and tie. Twelve-year-old Patty could not fix her hair to suit herself. Teenage son Mike refused to get out of bed. ... Continue Reading...

In my mind's eye I can still picture the professor's red pencil marks across my sermon manuscript and the blunt words in the margin, 'Don't clutter the illustration!"I was a senior in seminary, a budding pulpit... Continue Reading...

"The Spirit and the Word" was the theme of the sixth annual National Conference on Preaching, held February 22-24 at St. Andrews Presbyterian Church in Newport Beach, CA.Beautiful weather, warm fellowship and i... Continue Reading...

As preachers, we tend to live and die by our words. But after learning how much some other speakers are making these days, I've decided my words are quite a bargain.According to Forbes magazine, John Madden mak... Continue Reading...

"You persuade a man only insofar as you can talk his language by speech, gesture, tonality, order, image, attitude, idea, identifying your ways with his." Kenneth Burke, A Rhetoric of MotivesA sermon is not a s... Continue Reading...

Creativity in preaching often seems an elusive dream for the one who must come up with one or more new sermons every week, year after year. Sometimes the creativity comes simply because the Spirit does somethin... Continue Reading...

Going to get the mail can be quite an experience. A collage of documents is dropped into the mailbox daily -- different sizes, shapes, colors, textures. On this particular day it is no different. Printed on sli... Continue Reading...