Throughout my 27 years of preaching and five years of coaching other preachers, I keep returning to one key facet of effective preaching the big idea. Getting clear on a big idea will sharpen and ...

October 13, 2019, seemed like every other Sunday. And it was—until it wasn’t. My sermon that day on Genesis 1:27 unexpectedly made national headlines, changing my life, our church, and the ...

(RNS) — After many in the room cheered her on and stood as she preached, the session featuring her sermon temporarily disappeared from the National Baptist Convention U.S.A. Inc.’s Facebook page. (RNS ...

“The Drum Major Instinct” is one of Martin Luther King Jr.’s finest sermons and perhaps his most haunting. He delivered it exactly two months before his assassination, on February 4, 1968, at ...

Michele Lowe, a former advertising executive, coaches religious leaders on how to write sermons with a little “zetz.” This is her peak season. By Sarah Maslin Nir Football players have the Super Bowl.

On the Monday after preaching, as I think about what all of those words are doing now that they’re out in the world, my mind wanders to a scene from Marilynne Robinson’s novel Lila. The title ...