“Now that I have preached about a dozen sermons I find I am repeating myself,” a young minister wrote despairingly in his diary in 1915. He was barely out of school and only a few months into his ...

It’s never fun but sometimes fruitful. As long as there are sermons, there will be bad sermons. And I hate preaching a bad sermon. I hate it because preaching is such a vulnerable activity. If I lead ...

Ever since the Reformation put new emphasis upon the authority of Scripture, the pulpit has been the pride of Protestantism. Nowhere has this pride been more evident than in the U.S., where ...

A sermon, per the Oxford Learner's Dictionary, is “a talk on a moral or religious subject, usually given by a religious leader during a service.” Sermons can be of different types and their delivery ...

Sermons are a major part of many churchgoers’ religious experiences. But there are differences by religious tradition in how satisfied churchgoers are with what they hear from the pulpit – as well as ...

After serving the Jesus Center for six years, I was encouraged that I could walk into any church and preach the same sermon and not simply because I only had one sermon! It turns out that both the ...

On any given Sunday, churchgoers settle into pews as a clergy person takes an ancient holy text and figures out what it has to say about our lives today. But how would worshippers feel if they found ...

The new leader of the Southern Baptist Convention has delivered sermons containing passages from those of his predecessor, causing a furor. By Ruth Graham The similarities in the sermons are ...