Lectionary Preaching

Articles The Samaritan Woman and Nicodemus
- By Thomas R. Steagald
- Posted on February 23rd, 2013
There is a hunger deep in every heart, a deep craving for forgiveness and hope, a sense that our best days are not all behind us, that God has not given up on us even if we have…
Articles 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…
Articles To the Measure of Christ
- By Gregory V. Palmer
- Posted on January 29th, 2013
The goal of preaching is to help Christians, individually and in the community, to know God as seen in the life of Israel and made known intimately in Jesus Christ. Scripture…
Articles A Transactional Relationship
- By Safiyah Fosua
- Posted on January 24th, 2013
When I began to preach, nearly thirty years ago, I approached preaching quite differently. I leaned more toward topical preaching and frequently, as young preachers do, selected a …
Articles Submitting to Be More Vile, or How I Decided to Say Tacky Things from the Pulpit
- By Brian Erickson
- Posted on January 13th, 2013
Preaching Controversial Series Of all John Wesley’s memorable lines, my favorite is from his April 2, 1739 journal entry, about having preached for the first time outside…
Articles Jesus Loves the Little People
- By Phillip Brandt
- Posted on January 12th, 2013
A Lectionary Sermon Series for Fall 2013 Series C, in the months of October and November, focuses the hearer’s attention upon the ministry of Christ recorded in Luke 17…