Reading the Gospels for all they’re worth
Joseph Lear: My hope is that this post points to the importance of reading and rereading biblical narrative, searching for Scripture's internal unity.
“You brood of vipers!” The lost art of denunciation
We can go wrong by not preaching against things. Most preachers (and I include myself in this category) are cowards.
Dear Preacher: some friendly advice from the pew
Do you really want to know about the state of preaching? Ask the laity — we know better than anyone just how bad contemporary preaching is.
Grace, grace, and grace: how to battle Osteenism in our time
We must take the Osteen out of our own eyes before we go looking to remove it from our neighbor's.
Grace, growth, and God’s dream: three types of sermons
There are only three types of sermons.
How to preach sermons that don’t suck
Let’s be honest, most sermons today are terrible. They are boring. They ramble. They sound like bad imitations of high school book reports.
Fleming Rutledge on the KJV
There have been a great many articles about the King James Version of the Bible during and since last year's 400th anniversary, but to my mind none more eloquent and convincing that the one by Robert Pogue Harrison, Professor of Italian (!) Literature at Stanford, which appears in the Feb. 9 issue of The New York Review of Books.