Many of you are pastors or teachers who are putting finishing touches on your sermon or lesson for this weekend — and too ...
Currently, I serve as Assistant Professor of Homiletics at Virginia Theological Seminary. Our theological institution turns 200 in 2023. To celebrate and commemorate the occasion, our Seminary ...
While God is certainly in the details, he is uniquely and stirringly at work in the organic flow of ideas Verse-by-verse preaching possesses a long, storied tradition. It finds biblical precedent in ...
How crucicentric and conversionistic should an expository sermon be, especially around the holidays when churches welcome more guests into their pews than any other time of the year? In view of Paul’s ...
In a world beset by war, genocide, systemic discrimination, and climate catastrophe, we need good news. Donyelle McCray, who teaches homiletics at Yale Divinity School, offers the opportunity to hear ...
Pope Leo XIV urged priests to avoid using AI for sermons, warning that technology cannot replace faith, prayer, or personal preaching.
On the Monday after preaching, as I think about what all of those words are doing now that they’re out in the world, my mind wanders to a scene from Marilynne Robinson’s novel Lila. The title ...
Long ago, writing and preaching were what I felt called by God to do. That’s not because I thought I could do them better than other people, but because it seemed that’s what God created me for, ...
Pope Leo XIV has warned priests against using AI tools like ChatGPT to write their sermons, saying AI can never replace lived ...
NASHVILLE (RNS) — Colleen Reese was ticked at her preacher. Listening to the minister’s sermon at Franklin Christian Church, south of Nashville, she took exception when he began to criticize parents ...