Preaching

Article Three Ways We Censor the Bible
- By Dave Barnhart
- Posted on May 20th, 2013
In a post on my blog last fall, I talked about the “secret” history of Red Alabama, and how that history gets sanitized. How we sanitize history is the subject of the…
Article The Elephant in the Living Room
- By Lewis Parks
- Posted on April 26th, 2013
Consider the following situation. A woman has spent most of her eighty years in the same small membership church. Her grandparents donated the property on which that church…
Article No Longer an Orphan
- By Roberto L. Gómez
- Posted on April 15th, 2013
John 14:23-29 A few days after my mother died following a prolonged illness, I felt very lonely. My father had died eleven years earlier. I realized I was now an orphan, a person …
Article The Liberating Word of God
- By Vance Ross
- Posted on April 13th, 2013
I view the power of preaching as the divine and contemporary word of God, releasing humans from any imprisoning or enslaving element. This view reflects a theology of preaching as …
Article Preaching to Ourselves
- By Stan Purdum
- Posted on April 1st, 2013
As a preacher, the comment I most hate to receive after a sermon is “You gave us something to think about.” The way I hear it, none of the ways “You gave us…
Article Rehearsing Before You Preach
- By Lewis Parks
- Posted on February 22nd, 2013
John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist movement, told preachers who had trouble pronouncing certain words to listen to those who pronounced them correctly, then read those…