Why should preachers care about beauty? A preacher who graduated from seminary in the 1990s recently lamented, “I am not sure what I am doing anymore. At weddings people… read more

Beauty is wonderful, but if it is not for good, it may be for nothing. Goodness is beautiful. Good may be defined as what is desired or of benefit. Here we will tend to equate… read more

The winds facing the church in our era are as great as any the church has faced since the Reformation. The argument here is not that we need new sermon forms, new ideas to try… read more

In the midst of the Covid-19 crisis, what are we as pastors to do? We have concerns for ourselves and our families, plus similar concerns for our congregations. We did not take… read more

Perhaps it is no coincidence that in the same years that Western culture was transitioning to digital media, it also was also completing a transition from modern to postmodern… read more

Preachers who rush to, “What will preach?”, are like fire marshals rushing to a fire with the wrong address. We must work with the text, doing exegesis before settling … read more