Articles

Determining the best new book in the world of preaching and homiletics is a daunting and difficult task. The task is made all the more challenging by the release of several new volumes marked by originality, im... Continue Reading...

Preachers are avid -- even ravenous -- readers. Publishers discovered long ago the appetite of the preaching minister for worthy reading.Though doomsayers in this electronic age seem always ready to offer a eul... Continue Reading...

The articles in this series focus attention upon some of the tacit, non-verbal messages that go back and forth between the preacher and the audience in the interplay of personalities between the preacher and th... Continue Reading...

D. L. Moody once was invited to preach at New York's sophisticated Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. Many of its more intellectual parishioners didn't want him to, but he came anyway.He decided to preach on Dan... Continue Reading...

Lost in Darkness -- Found in Light(Isaiah 60:1-3)"Light to the Gentiles" is as apt a way to describe Epiphany as another. Isaiah's promise -- "the nations shall come to your light" -- conveys not only a sense o... Continue Reading...

January brings with it the inauguration of a new President of the United States -- and the start of a new campaign to elect the next President in 1992.The media gave bushels of attention in 1988 to two preacher... Continue Reading...

Though Atlanta is a city of churches, Wieuca Road Baptist Church is an enduring phenomenon. Once the magnet church for a generation of southern suburbanites, Wieuca Road is now surrounded by bustling Buckhead, ... Continue Reading...

This final installment of a three-part series on effective preaching focuses on the technical aspects of the form and presentation of sermons. Part I examined the appropriate relationship between the ancient ar... Continue Reading...