Much is up to me in preaching: to prepare well, to know my people, to be winsome. Much is up to God. But I have also come to ...

What makes a sermon good? That has been a notoriously difficult question to answer. There are really only four kinds of sermons: biblically shallow and contextually irrelevant; biblically substantive ...

United Church of Christ minister F. Russell Mitman transfigures the pulpit with his conviction that preaching is more than a seated activity within the walls of the local church. Because “there is one ...

We are right to always look for Good News in the Scripture readings. Hosea contains some of the most moving expressions of God’s love for his people even in their sinfulness; “It was I who taught ...

What kind of preaching do we need to mark the milestones of our faith—Baptism, Confirmation, marriage and funerals? In its third season, “Preach” steps beyond its usual Sunday lectionary focus to ...

“All this I do for the sake of the gospel, so that I too may have a share in it” (1 Cor 9:23). From the Book of Job to the novels of Dostoevsky, the question of why the innocent suffer has been the ...