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Karoline Lewis on Helping New Preachers Find Their Voice

For beginning preachers, both women and men, finding their authentic voice requires deep self-reflection in a supportive, respectful context.

Conversation | July 18, 2018

Karoline Lewis on the Power of Women in Ministry

Women navigating life in ministry face unique challenges. Naming these realities is the first step to helping women and men recognize them and respond proactively.

Conversation | July 18, 2018

The Impact of Peer Learning Groups for the Preaching Life

The leader of preaching peer groups in northern Indiana and on Chicago’s South Side shares his insights about what makes these groups so effective.

Reflection | July 16, 2018

The Challenge of Preaching in Bilingual Communities

Preaching to peers in a homiletics cohort opened Antonio Almonte’s eyes to the differences in how listeners perceive his preaching in English versus Spanish. As a result, he adjusted his English-language preaching style.

Reflection | July 11, 2018

Matthew D. Kim on Preaching with Cultural Intelligence

Preachers who interpret scripture without paying attention to cultural, ethnic, and other differences in their congregation miss out on opportunities to build bridges to their listeners’ lives.

Conversation | June 29, 2018

Anne Emile Zaki on Preaching and Teaching in Today’s Egypt

After becoming a seminary professor in Egypt in 2013, Anne Zaki discovered two things about preaching that she hadn’t learned in the North American context.

Conversation | June 15, 2018

Means of Grace: Forming New and Sustaining “Renewing” Congregations and Church Plants

In this seminar, veteran practitioners discussed how mission-shaped preaching and sacramental life function as means of grace in their communities. Audience engaged a discussion that sees evangelism and robust worship as beautifully integrated elements of every congregation’s ministry.

Audio | May 04, 2018

The Gospel of John in the Pulpit

This seminar explored the Gospel of John and offered cultural clues that help the gospel’s stories spring to life in new and unexpected ways.

Audio | April 23, 2018

Congregations and Sermons: A Biblical Scholar's Vision for Imaginative, Communal Sermon Listening

Most of us consider the Bible more than an anthology or a textual repository for the ancient Israelites' and early Christians' religious traditions.

Audio | July 06, 2017

Strengthening Congregational Life by Engaging God's World

Cornelius Plantinga Jr. gives an opening plenary lecture at the 2017 Taking Your Church to College.

Video | July 05, 2017

Worship Resources for Creation Care

We confess that God created heaven and earth and everything in it. We sing that this is our Father’s world. Yet, billions of people suffer in places where so much is no longer bright and beautiful. This worship resource guide will help your community plan services that honor our Creator, who invites us to join in caring for the whole creation.

Resource Guide | June 14, 2017

Worship Resources for the 500th Anniversary of the Protestant Reformation

Martin Luther posted his ninety-five theses on the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church on October 31, 1517. This worship resource guide will help your community plan services of grace and truth as you commemorate the five hundredth anniversary of the Protestant Reformation or plan worship for a Reformation Sunday.

Resource Guide | March 31, 2017

Bruce Theron on Word and Worship, a South African lectionary resource

Across cultures and denominations, South African churches are growing in unity—thanks to the nation’s first ecumenical sermon and worship resource written in English.

Conversation | March 16, 2017

The Challenges and Opportunities of Preaching Matthew

Each of the four gospels has its own flavor, themes, and overall character and so each requires different things of the preacher. Matthew’s Gospel presents a number of challenges, a few of which are peculiar to the present day when biblical literacy in most places has fallen off.

Audio | February 13, 2017

Scholars Suggest How to Remember the Reformation

Seven scholars, pastors and musicians discuss how Protestants and Catholics can and should together observe the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation in 2017.

Conversation | June 01, 2016

How the News Shapes Our Prayers and Preaching

If our public prayers and preaching are at all responsive to the needs of the world, then how we glean information about the world is crucial.

Video | May 02, 2016

Preaching to and with Millennials

Learn what Pastor Mary Hulst has discovered as a college chaplain and why she thinks the future of the North American church relies on preaching that engages this generation.

Audio | April 21, 2016

Preaching to the Streets: Homiletics for Urban Ministry

How can the Bible speak to the hopes and fears of urban people who don’t know anything about the Christian life?

Video | April 21, 2016

Wording the Sunday Sermon

One of the preacher’s big challenges is finding language for the Sunday sermon that will engage the most of her or his listeners. But what kind of language is that? What are some of its features?