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Category: Preaching and Pastoral Leadership

Luther, Plagues, and Christian Responsibility

All across the world today, people are dying, schools have been closed, and universities have transitioned to distance learning as students are sent to their

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March 30, 2020 No Comments

Free Guide to Creating Online, Participatory Worship Services

In the wake of COVID-19, church leaders are conducting worship online. It is tempting to merely stream sermons or create podcasts of sermons. Yet congregants

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March 23, 2020 No Comments

Jonathan Edwards and Pastoring Those Who Don’t Give a Damn

You’d be shocked too if your name appeared in the story of a famous American. I’ve never assumed that I came from a great line

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February 19, 2020 No Comments

The Work and the Rest That Is Worship

In the midst of the Advent season, many church leaders are busy preparing for some extra special—Extra and Special worship services. These services generally draw

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December 9, 2019 No Comments

Encouragement for Weary Preachers

What can we do when we’ve lost the heart to preach? Many of us are familiar with this experience. But many of us bury our

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November 20, 2019 No Comments

Cultivating Joy through Theological Study

Make time to study. For the seminarian, the need is obvious. Whether to read required texts, research a term paper, or prepare for a final

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November 18, 2019 No Comments

I Believe in Preaching

“Almighty God, on this day you opened the way of eternal life to every race and nation by the promised gift of your Holy Spirit:

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October 30, 2019 No Comments

Christian Worship in the Season of Civil Religion

Every calendar year the strength of the Christian sense of time recedes just as it faces its greatest test. Christians derive our sense of time

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June 3, 2019 No Comments

Preaching Doctrine

This fall I assigned sermons to read for several weeks of my Foundations in Systematic Theology course, a tactic I learned from the great Geoffrey

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December 17, 2018 No Comments

Accompanying a Friend through Trauma: Searching for Answers to a Mysterious Affliction

A dear friend of mine, a capable, compassionate and responsible professional woman, thought she was going crazy after 9/11. She was not in New York

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October 3, 2018 No Comments
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