On the first day of our introductory preaching course, my colleague presents a continuum. At one end is the view that the preacher has sole responsibility to make the gospel heard, to get Jesus to ...

Communicating deep theological truths in a way that people can meet the Lord. Matt Woodley: This is Matt Woodley, with Monday Morning Preacher, where we talk about all facets of preaching and how we ...

Everyone loves a good story. The popularity of Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, The Chronicles of Narnia, and Game of Thrones illustrates the affection most of us have for engaging tales of ...

I have preached lots of evangelistic sermons and many revival services. I have a natural God-given bent toward evangelistic ...

Amy-Jill Levine, who teaches New Testament and Jewish studies at Vanderbilt, is the author of The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus and coeditor of The Jewish Annotated ...

The Shabbat morning service at Congregation Sha’arei Shalom in this suburb of Raleigh has a familiar feel to anyone who grew up in a mainstream American synagogue. Sixty adults and a handful of ...

The encounter between Jesus and Nathaniel is one example of how the evangelists layered in the identity of Jesus with scriptural texts that went all the way back to the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and ...

Jesus' message and ministry were about reconciliation. After his baptism in the Jordan, when the heavens were again opened and reconciled with earth, Jesus went north to Galilee. There he assembled a ...

(RNS) — At least a dozen churches across the country are hosting Good Friday services this year that feature seven African American female preachers speaking about the last sayings of Jesus. (RNS) — ...

The Friday the calendar annually designates as Good offers some of the best preaching in the African American faith community. Representing the sayings of Jesus while dying on the cross of Calvary, it ...