What makes for ‘good preaching’? This is a sermon about sermons, about what it means to preach and listen to the Word of God. Can you remember a sermon you once heard that touched your heart so deeply ...

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Martin Copenhaver’s insightful “Handshake ritual” catches the preacher’s attention. The more I am in this business the more ambivalent I feel about the traditional ritual of greeting worshipers after ...

When Scot asked me to write a series on “How to Craft or Create Good Sermons,” I immediately had mixed feelings. First, am I known for preaching good sermons, that is, am I qualified? A foreign body ...

Our Top 10 Good Friday sermons will ignite your own creativity as you prepare to preach about the crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ. These sermons cover a range of themes, including the atonement, ...

Church leaders and volunteers will soon have access to an artificial intelligence platform that aims to shave hours off their day-to-day tasks by generating content from sermons to engage fellow ...

When several hundred Lutherans in Bavaria, Germany, attended a service on June 9, 2023, designed by ChatGPT, the program not only selected hymns and prayers, but also composed and delivered a sermon, ...

We live in a noisy world. Whether in the back or foreground, through talk radio, music, or conversations, we're almost constantly ingesting audible information. By week's end when we arrive at church ...

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 the confines of the pulpit: “At four in the afternoon I ...

In a letter to his son, Christopher, J. R. R. Tolkien attempts to explain why from his perspective so many sermons are so bad: The answer to the mystery is prob[ably] not simple; but part of it is ...