Narrative Preaching: Possibilities and Perils
Given the fact that there is much interest in story preaching, two questions must be addressed to aid the preacher in exploring the possibilities of narrative preaching. First, what is the definition of a "narr... Continue Reading...
Highlights of the 1992 National Conference on Preaching
More than 300 participants enjoyed a time of inspiration and new insights during the fourth annual National Conference on Preaching, February 18-20 at the First United Methodist Church in Houston, Texas. The Na... Continue Reading...
The Sermon as Teaching Event Today
Recent homiletics textbooks tend to view the teaching sermon as a specialized type of preaching, sometimes equating the teaching sermon with the doctrinal sermon. In this view, the purpose of the doctrinal serm... Continue Reading...
A Penny for Your Thoughts …. No, Make That $1.95 per Minute
Now that the Supreme Court has lowered the gavel on "Dial-a-Porn" 900-number telephone services, all those vacant phone lines will be available for other, more productive uses. Like preaching.The Pope got thing... Continue Reading...
Illustrations add power to sermons
ABORTION - Affects young peopleAccording to the Alan Guttmacher Institute (formerly affiliated with Planned Parenthood), an estimated 183,000 abortions are performed each year on minors under 18 years of age; t... Continue Reading...
Sermons feature texts of Easter season
April 5, 1992Hearing the Story Again(Isaiah 43:16-21)It is amazing how often people miss the very things they need most -- and these things are right under their noses. Perhaps this is why the Bible seems to te... Continue Reading...
Barth’s Homiletics deals with theory and practice of preaching
Karl Barth, Homiletics, trans. Geoffrey Bromily and Donald E. Daniels (Louisville, KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1991), 136 pp., paper."Now I can preach again." Those were the oft-quoted words of a young Sco... Continue Reading...
Easter: It Is Finished (John 19:28-30)
This Easter sermon invites us to newness of life. Jesus' words from the cross, It is finished" meant not that his life was over, that everything would go back to the same old pattern. Instead, His work was accomplished; everything was different. That for which He had come was completed.
Telling Time(Mark 13:24-32)
With all the scheduled things to do and with all the things that just happen, this children's sermon reminds us that there is something important to tend to: no matter how busy we are, we always need to make time for Jesus.