I was in over my head, and I knew it. During my senior year of college, I was called to pastor a rural congregation fifteen minutes off campus. My senior class friends were making the most of their ...

An overview of the historical background and theology of Revelation to help you develop your sermon series and apply it to your hearers. I can say without exaggeration that the most transformative ...

Palm Sunday 2019 is a day that Karen Cooke will look back on the rest of her life as a turning point. She is in her second year at Abilene Christian University’s Graduate School of Theology, where she ...

Eureka First United Methodist Church Eureka (520 Del Norte St.): The Sunday worship service starts at 10 a.m. The Rev. Amy Beth Durward de Macias’ sermon is titled “The High Way.” Both virtual and ...

Postmodernism, with its critique of modern assumptions about knowledge, language, authority and narrative, presents new challenges for preachers. Postmodernity is generally seen as entailing a ...

Churches of Christ have a supply and demand problem -- thousands of houses of worship and not enough preachers to fill the pulpits. During Harding University's 100th annual Lectureship in Searcy on ...

Athletes call it being “in the zone.” Psychologists describe it as a state of “flow.” Musicians say it’s like being “in the pocket.” It’s that transcendent moment when time seems to slow down for an ...

OVER THE PAST FIFTEEN YEARS, I have driven through the small town of Luling hundreds of times on my way between Houston and Wimberley, stopping occasionally for watermelons or barbecue. On each trip, ...

Artificial intelligence may be able to generate polished sermons, complete with structure, illustrations and theological analysis, but it cannot embody lived faith, suffering or spiritual encounter, ...