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A Prayer at the Edges of Morning
Julia Watkin
Move Out / Move In: The cycle of death and resurrection in a college community
Trip Porch
Sermon: “Search Party”
Lucinda Perera Isaacs
Sermon: 'Redistribution: A Righteous Response'
Joseph F Scrivner
Sermon: “Time to Let Go”
J C Austin
Sermon: 'Beyond Babel'
Nii Addo Abrahams
The Cross in the Palestinian Context
Mitri Raheb
Good Friday Sermon: “When God is Silent”
Timothy W Sloan
Sermon for Pentecost: 'The Fire Next Time'
Melanie Marsh
When you Preach Resurrection, Preach The Disabled God
Erin L Raffety
Sermon: 'Something Got a Hold of Me'
Charles Maxell
An Easter Sermon: 'A Sliver, A Cloud, An Opening.'
Matt Fitzgerald
The Church: Crisis and Opportunity (The journey of St. Matthew's, Westerville)
Joseph G Kovitch
Psalm 51: Spasmodic Petition and Repentant Interiority
Scott R A Starbuck
Preaching Toward True Repentance
Thomas G Long
Sermon: “Changing the End of the Story”
Andrew C Whaley
Easter Preaching: A Matter of Hope
Adam Mixon
Sermon: “In Praise of Shame”
Brad A Binau
Portrait of the Church at Pentecost
Ryan P Bonfiglio
Getting the Steps Right
Tony Hanna
The Cross in a Shameless Society
George A Mason
Choosing the Inefficiency of Relationships: Preaching Easter Hope in a World Augmented by Artificial Intelligence
Andy P Morgan
Sermon: 'Each in Their Own Language'
Rachel Achtemeier Rhodes
Sermon: 'Preach Until it Turns this World Upside Down'
Leah D Jackson
Sermon: 'Breathe'
Dawn Martin Hyde
Sermon: “When Easter Morning is a Hard Stop”
David Aubrey Davis
A Prayer in honor of Paul at the Fifty Year Mark of His Ordination ... and Counting
Walter Brueggemann
Sermon for Ash Wednesday: “Tiny Things”
Olivia Hamilton
Advent Among the Wreckage
Greg Jarrell
“What Are You Expecting?”
Carol Patterson
The Mystery of an Anatomy
Andrew Warner
“Surprised, but not Surprised”
Amy Valdez Barker
Witnesses to the Resurrection
Matt Gaventa
“Heads Up!”
Pam Driesell
Surprised by Revelation
Donghyun Jeong
“Minor Character/Major Love: The Shepherds”
Emily Wilmarth
Advent Surprises
David Wood
Creation Out of Chaos
Ryan P Bonfiglio
'A Tale of Two Tombs'
Lucinda Perera Isaacs
The Shock of Easter
Thomas G Long
Pentecost: Finding Yourself on Holy Ground
Marthame Sanders
Tree Gospel (or, Easter in October)
Daniel Cooperrider
'Speak People, Fluently': Acts 2:1-13
Amy Starr Redwine
'An Out of Hand Church': Acts 2:1-21
Ben Johnston-Krase
'Sighing': Romans 8:22-27
Kristy Farber
'Crucial Questions for Such a Time as This: What Does this Mean?'
William D Watley
Preaching in Iowa, 2024
David Feltman
'Touched by Trauma, Touched by Grace'
Sarah Travis
Are You the One?
Sarah Are Speed
This is really Jesus!
Amy Valdez Barker
'Who We are Becoming in Christ'
Jessica Renee Patchett
A Letter to the Next Pastor of Christ Church
Drew Stockstill
“Somehow”
Rebecca Gurney
Shimmering and Shuddering
Matt Fitzgerald
'Invested Liberation'
Emily McGinley
'Where Do We Begin?': Genesis 1:1-3
Jon Komperda
The ‘ We-ness’ of it All
Nancy J Benson-Nicol
Making Visible the Invisible
DeAmon Harges
'Two Stories'
Kate Haynes Murphy
A Safe Place
Melanie Marsh
Converting Statistics
Walter Brueggemann
Could it be that simple?
Hierald Edgardo Osorto
No Past Tense Faith
Jason Byassee
Floodlines: The story of an unnatural disaster
Amy Miracle
'Gardener of a New Creation'
Miriam Mauritzen
WHEN PROPHETS PREACH: LEADERSHIP AND THE POLITICS OF THE PULPIT
Joseph S Harvard
The Great Dechurching: Who’s Leaving, Why Are They Going, and What Will It Take to Bring Them Back?
Katie Nakamura Rengers
Tethered to an Appalachian Curse: A Surprise Calling
Paul K Hooker
Moving Beyond Happy, Sad, or Angry: Two Books that Expand Our Emotional Repertoire
Amy Miracle
Let Me Introduce You To Gen Z
Brittany Porch
Additional Tributes to Frederick Buechner
Kimberly L Clayton
Christmas Dinner at Mary's Place
Jon M Walton
Give Me a Clean Heart
Amantha Barbeel
View from the Pew: What a Parishioner Wants the Preacher to Know
Max Sherman
Misjudged Movements: Isaiah 58:1-12; James 5:1-6
Joseph F Scrivner
The Gospel of Jesus Christ Was Announced on the Day of Pentecost
Halim Shukair
The Good Neighbor
Daniel Heath
One New Book for the Preacher
Jennifer Maxell
Preaching Easter Hope and Pentecostal Peace in Trying Times--and Via New Media
Peter M Wallace
Preaching in Concert with Professional Companions
David J Schlafer
Advent Worship: Songs and Singing
Eric Wall
Giving Up On God
Andrew C Whaley
Lenten Sermon
Bill Lamar
Social Crisis Preaching and Prophetic Responsibility
Tyshawn Gardner
Playing Out in a World on Fire
Susan Baller-Shepard
Finding God in the Midst: A Lenten Sermon from Jeremiah
Kimberly Wagner
Bury the Graveyard
Matt Fitzgerald
Seek the Welfare of the City
Dean K Thompson
Preaching Graveside
Jennifer L Lord
Surprise: Genesis 18:1-15
Sarah Johnson
Wounded Souldiers: What a therapist wants the preacher to know
Adrienne Mixon
Seeing, Hearing, and Knowing: John 20:11-18
Carol Lynn Patterson
Shiny Enough: Facing Envy
Amy Miracle
Sermon Crafting for Intercultural Preaching
Pamela Hosey Long
Advent: Are We There Yet?
Carla Jones Brown
Deep Dawn: Luke 24:1-12
Richard E Spalding
Loss, Lament, and the Emotions of Young People Today
Kyle Bender
The End
Adrienne Thorne
Frederick Buechner and Homiletical Impressionism
Thomas G Long
The Terror of Advent
Lewis F Galloway
Redefining Greatness
Brady Radford
Changing the Question
Barrett Payne
Who Speaks For God?
James Gertmenian
Reconsidering that Footprints Poem
Adam Hearlson
What the Physician Wants the Pastor to Know
Luke Farmer
Resurrection Is No Fairy Tale
Tom Jr Are
Advent Hope in a Time of Terror
Charles Foster Johnson
Words to Ourselves: What Preachers Use to Guide Their Preaching
Mark Ramsey
What Kind of Historian: A Tribute to Erskine Clarke
William Yoo
Protagonist Corner: An Old Preacher’s Easter Prayer for His Young Colleagues
James S Lowry
Birthing the Impossible
Amina S McIntyre
One New Book for the Preacher
O Benjamin Sparks
Without Hindrance!
Walter Brueggemann
An Unpayable Debt: On Forgiveness
Adam Mixon
Easter Sunday, 2021
Paul Palumbo
Those Who Dream . . . Prepare the Way
Betsy Swetenberg
Finding Our Voice: A Vision for Asian North American Preaching
Katie Nakamura Rengers
Introduction to Preaching: Scripture, Theology, and Sermon Preparation
Thomas G Long
Jubilee on the Way: Readings from Luke in the Season after Pentecost
Mary Hinkle Shore
But Early Sunday Morning!
Marvin A McMickle
In Praise of Praise
Christopher A Henry
“Unbroken”
Scott Black Johnston
An Old Preacher’s Prayer on the Eighty-Second Anniversary of His Birth: October 4, 1939 - October 4, 2021 (thus far and counting) With reference to Joel 2:28 and Acts 2:17
James S Lowry
The Church Expecting
Anna Carter Florence
Igniting a Spiritual Blaze for All Our Generations
Mark Ramsey
Resurrection Day 2021
Adam Mixon
You Shall Know the Truth: The Challenge of Repentance
Thomas G Long
What’s More Original Than Sin?
Michael J Hoyt
Preaching the Lenten Texts
William Goettler
It's Five o'clock Somewhere
Leigh Stuckey
Three Key Moves toward White Extremism
Walter Brueggemann
Easter Preaching in Secular America
David Aubrey Davis
A Final Word: Transitions for the JP
Erskine Clarke
On Breaking the Silence
Walter Brueggemann
Beauty as an Evangelical Invitation in Secular America
Michael III Pasquarello
Hope on the Road
Kristy Farber
Preaching Repentance: Claiming the Gift of Our Humanity
Thomas W III Currie
Be Careful What You Pray For
Leigh Stuckey
THE CALL, or OF COURSE I MIND: A 5 minute Reimagining of Luke 1:26-38; 46-48 (Commissioned by Fellowship for Performing Arts)
Amina S McIntyre
Endings
Shannon Johnson Kershner
What I hear you saying is that the role of the preacher has changed from being the team's star player to being a coach
Thomas Richard Daniel
A Retrospect
Walter Brueggemann
Deep Narratives: The Japanese Internment as an Intergenerational Story
Katie Nakamura Rengers
Protagonists Corner: What the Heck Is Going On in the United Methodist Church?
William H Willimon
'Don't Just Do Something, Sit There'
Joseph J Clifford
Erskine Clarke as Colleague, Pastor, Neighbor, Father, and Parishioner
Mark Ramsey
To Be Chosen
Werner Ramirez
The Slow Burn of Forgiveness: St. Joseph ([strikethrough] Preaches) Lives Forgiveness
Brent A Strawn
Faith: A Letter to Oliver
Scott Black Johnston
The Fear of the Lord and the Politics of Awe
William P Brown
Before the Hills in Order Stood: And Afterwards
D Cameron Jr Murchison
Protagonist Corner: Accounts
Thomas Lynch
One New Book for the Preacher
Joseph S III Harvard
A New Set of Eyes
Peter W Marty
Two Stories
Samuel Wells
A New Community from Frayed Edges
Chris Currie
No Longer Sitting on a Rack
Angela F Shepherd
Coming, Ready or Not: The Character of Advent Hope
Samuel Wells
Preaching on Easter in a Good Friday Season
Martin B Copenhaver
What Are You Praying For?
Ben Dorr
Preaching on Easter
Ronald J Allen
B.C. and A.C: Preaching and Worship Before COVID and After COVID
Lisa S Kraske Cressman
Preaching Stewardship
Theodore J Wardlaw
The Paradox of Prayer in a Time of Pandemic
James F Kay
Ethics in Conversation: A Festschrift in Honor of Donald W. Shriver, Jr., 13th President of Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York
Ronald C Jr White
Praying the Lord's Prayer in a Pandemic
William H Willimon
Toward a Theology of Suffering
Trace Haythorn
What Do We Do with All This Grief?
Jennifer A McBride
Empty
Scott Black Johnston
The Spirit, the Lament, and the Dream
Tod E Bolsinger
Prayer in a Time of Crisis: A Personal Reflection from Scotland: An Iona Community Perspective—'Heaven in ordinarie'
Norman J Shanks
Preaching the Lenten Texts 2021: Hope for the Covenant Community
James S Lowry
Resurrection in Pandemic
P Richard Game
Light! Energy! Illumination!: Introducing a New Method of Preaching
Julie Faith Parker
Protagonist Corner: Do the Numbers!
Walter Brueggemann
Protagonist Corner: The Healing Survivor: A Model of Vulnerability for the Modern Preacher
Peter Bynum
Getting into the Habit of Hope
David S Cunningham
Palm Sunday
Shannon Johnson Kershner
Do Not Be Afraid
Agnes W Norfleet
The Spirituality of the Church
Thomas W III Currie
Virtue Signal
William H Willimon
Preaching the Gospel of Mark: The Power of Love Among Us
Dawn Ottoni Wilhelm
How Genesis Faces Chaos
Kathleen M O'Connor
Sit & Get or Contend & Send: The Opportunity for the Church Now
Mark Ramsey
For the Living of These Days: From the Front Lines of Ministry
Mark Ramsey
The Thin Place in the Heart of God: All Saints Day 2021
Valerie Bridgeman
God’s Judgment (but Mostly Our Own) in Times of Crisis
David S Cunningham
Tread Marks and Roses: Glimpses of Resurrection
Thomas G Long
A Film and Its Message of Suffering and Hope in a Pandemic
Thomas A Summers
Preaching the Advent Texts
A Katherine Grieb
Zoom Fatigue?: Not in Ministry!
Damon P Williams
When the Music Starts Again
Walter Brueggemann
What Does Christianity Have to Offer?
Mary Katherine Robinson
Ash Wednesday Sermon
Amy P McCullough
Church of the Resurrection
Chris Currie
Stand Firm
Jill Duffield
Protagonist Corner [44 no 1 Advent 2020 ]
Joseph S Harvard
Obligated to Hope: An African American Perspective
Valerie Bridgeman
The Great Plot Twist
Meg Peery McLaughlin
God's Dangerous Experiment or And on the Sixth Day the Creator Took a Very Long Lunch-Break
Douglas John Hall

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