It’s never fun but sometimes fruitful. As long as there are sermons, there will be bad sermons. And I hate preaching a bad sermon. I hate it because preaching is such a vulnerable activity. If I lead ...

Is preaching in America in a particularly bad state? Several commentators have recently raised the question, yet it has a long history. "It has become an impertinent Vein among People of all Sorts," ...

he Bad Testament is nowhere to be found. Yes, there’s the Old Testament, followed as it tends to be, by the New Testament. But, according to the mindset of one Scott H. Biram, there’s a big chunk ...

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NOT that there may not be seventy, or even the full scriptural measure of seventy times seven, offenses against homiletical propriety. But the number seven has always possessed for religious circles a ...

We all need to be good preachers. By good I mean persuasive but also conscientious, promoting good ideas, not bad ones. The last thing we want is a world full of persuasive preachers preaching bad ...

Rev. Mariann Budde leads the national prayer service attended by President Donald Trump at the Washington National Cathedral on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, in Washington. Budde's sermon was courageous, ...

On the morning of Sunday 19 May, 1940, Clementine Churchill returned early from a church service at St. Martin-in-the-Fields in central London, having walked out when the preacher delivered a pacifist ...

He’s 88 years old and technically retired. But Gardner C. Taylor still shows the preaching skills that have placed him on virtually every list of America’s greatest contemporary preachers. As a guest ...