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2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Workshop
“How is it that you can take a group of people who are in despair and when you get finished preaching the gospel, they have hope?” This question sent Frank Thomas down a path that led him nearly forty years later to create the first PhD program in African-American preaching.
“How is it that you can take a group of people who are in despair and when you get finished preaching the gospel, they have hope?” This question sent Frank Thomas down a path that led him nearly forty years later to create the first PhD program in African-American preaching.
2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Workshop
2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Service of the Word
2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Service of the Word
2019 Calvin Symposium on Worship | Service of the Word & Table
A young pastor calls his preaching peer group “a funeral and a pep rally in the same ninety minutes.” Find out why.
A young pastor calls his preaching peer group “a funeral and a pep rally in the same ninety minutes.” Find out why.
Most congregations have never heard a sermon preached from the prophetic books of Nahum or Obadiah. Other than a few choice passages in Jeremiah or Isaiah, the major prophets are mainly ignored too. That means worshipers are missing out on more than a quarter of inspired Scripture.
Most congregations have never heard a sermon preached from the prophetic books of Nahum or Obadiah. Other than a few choice passages in Jeremiah or Isaiah, the major prophets are mainly ignored too. That means worshipers are missing out on more than a quarter of inspired Scripture.
Christian liturgical practices—confession, intercession, and preaching—contain wisdom that can bring compassion and consensus to public conversations around contentious moral issues.
