The Honey-Sweet Doctor: Bernard of Clairvaux
You can almost smell the pages of Scripture as you turn the pages of Bernard’s sermons.
12 days with the paradoxical Word
Few preachers handle well both the temporal birth and the eternal begetting of the Son of God. One of them wrote in Latin in the middle of the fifth century, yet without passing along his name.
“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, 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.