For I determined to know nothing among you save Jesus Christ and him as crucified (1 Cor. 2:2). The ancients built the tower of Babel to scale the parapets of heaven. Athens erected her altars to gods ...

How can you keep Christ at the center of your preaching? In this episode, Matt Woodley explores that question with Bryan Chapell, the Stated Clerk for the Presbyterian Church in America. In his early ...

The Passion narrative of St. Matthew begins in the 26th chapter. It starts with a subordinate clause linking our Lord’s suffering and death to his prior preaching. When Jesus finished all these words, ...

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 ...

The story of Thomas coming to faith in the risen Jesus is both a theophany and an encounter with the Incarnation. Jesus is both the crucified one and our LORD and God. The body of Jesus of Nazareth is ...

Some social conflicts seem so deep and pervasive that they cannot be easily defined. During World War II, General De Gaulle described the confrontation between French Liberty and German National ...

Eureka First United Methodist Church Eureka (520 Del Norte St.): The Sunday worship service starts at 10 a.m. The Rev. Amy ...

The Feast of the Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome—a feast about a building—can intimidate preachers. The temptation? Mention it briefly and move on to the readings. But Sylvester Tan, S.J.

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, ...