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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 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 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 Video | May 02, 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?

Video Video | April 21, 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 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 Video | April 21, 2016

Sandra Van Opstal on Multicultural Preaching

A majority of U.S. Christians born before 1965 are white. However, the fastest growing groups in the U.S. as a whole and in its churches are people of color. Preaching must change to reflect this diversity so that all generations and nations can encounter God through the Word

Conversation Conversation | April 08, 2016

Solid Resources for Lively Preaching

Preachers know that unless they receive fresh input from good resources, sooner or later their weekly output in the sermon will get thinner and thinner. But where are the solid resources on which the preacher can rely? What best practices exist to enrich preaching?

Video Video | April 01, 2016

L. Gregory Jones on Traditioned Innovation in Worship

Worship conversations change when you choose to see tradition as a lively center from which to innovate. This provides common ground between those who fear change and those who overvalue change.

Conversation Conversation | March 11, 2016

The Promise and Peril of Preaching for Revival: Lessons from George Whitefield's Life and Ministry

Seasons of renewal are God's gift to the church. They are also occasions for controversy and division. Together we reflect on one of history's greatest revival preachers to understand not only how revivals come but what follows in their aftermath.

Audio Audio | March 03, 2016

Jennifer Ackerman on Courageous Conversations among Pastors

The Micah Groups program brings together pastors from diverse denominational, theological and ethnic contexts, all who desire to become empowered wise preachers. They seek justice, love mercy and walk humbly with God. Over time, they build enough trust to have courageous conversations about worship, preaching and justice.

Conversation Conversation | February 19, 2016

Karin Maag on Calvin’s Geneva and the 500th Protestant Reformation Anniversary

Whether you observe Halloween, All Saints’ Day or Reformation Sunday, you probably know that Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to a church door on October 31, 1517 and that John Calvin promoted the Reformation in Geneva, Switzerland. Here’s why that still matters.

Conversation Conversation | October 27, 2015

Meg Jenista on The Young Clergy Women Project

Face it. There are still far more male pastors than female pastors. That is why young female pastors support each other in The Young Clergy Women Project.

Conversation Conversation | April 21, 2015

Preaching to the Elder Brother

A guide for preaching to elder brothers.

Audio Audio | March 11, 2015

Listening to Your Listeners: A Preaching Preparation Process That Changes…Everything!

During this workshop, participants discover how diverse congregations have established and maintained pre-sermon dialogue groups.

Audio Audio | March 11, 2015

The Most Important Word in Preaching: Story or Exposition?

Presentation, dialogue, and discussion on the biblical text by Graves, Hoezee, and Wilson.

Audio Audio | March 11, 2015

How Not To Preach

This workshop is a brief field guide on how not to preach and teach the gospel in a secular age.

Video Video | March 05, 2015

The Most Important Word in Preaching

Since the inception of the New Homiletic in the 1970s, preachers have been experimenting with inductive and narrative forms of preaching, thanks to the likes of Fred Craddock and Eugene Lowry. The idea is for sermons to engage people, create an experience of the biblical text.

Audio Audio | February 20, 2015

Pablo Jiménez on Reenergizing Preaching

One way to keep sermons fresh is to ditch the deductive form, in which preachers begin with their main point and then work to prove it.

Conversation Conversation | January 08, 2015

Transformational Preaching: Engaging with Exodus and the Old Testament, part 2

Explore the art of building a bridge back to the world of the Bible and then bringing the drama back to our generation

Audio Audio | February 27, 2014