Tim A. Dearborn, Author at Preaching.com

The Spirit and the Word: Highlights of 1994 National Conference on Preaching

"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...

Need a Magic Lamp?

Tim A. Dearborn

Having Jesus as a friend, this children's sermon teaches, is better than any magic lamp or even a genie -- because He will be our friend forever, and will help us to grow and become the people God created us to be. That's not magic -- that's God's love!

Prayer: Wrestling in Prayer

Bill D. Whittaker

Many of our churches don't pray enough at prayer meeting to discover any agony or struggle.

Unclutter That Illustration

Ken Langley

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...

Preaching to Reluctant Pilgrims

James R. Tozer

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...

Can These Bones Live? Identification and Sermon Delivery

Craig A. Loscalzo

"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...

May-June 1994 – Vol. 9., No. 6

Tim A. Dearborn

May-June 1994 - Vol. 9., No. 6

Scattered Thoughts on a Winter Day

Michael Duduit

As I sit at the computer on a winter day -- the snow piling higher by the moment -- and dream of spring, several things come to mind:- Each issue of Preaching is designed to bring you a variety of approaches an... Continue Reading...

Resurrection and Grace: The Sermons of Austin Farrer

J. Barry Vaughn

Austin Farrer, a name probably unfamiliar to most Americans, has been described by Richard Harries (bishop of Oxford, and a leading authority on both Farrer and C. S. Lewis) as the greatest mind produced by the... Continue Reading...

New book asks: Is America’s preaching being secularized?

Michael Duduit

Marsha G. Witten, All Is Forgiven: The Secular Message in American Protestantism (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1993), cloth, 179 pp., $19.95.Anyone interested in tracking the shifting trends in th... Continue Reading...