In the conventional list of the most inspiring and influential writers of all time, we are not likely to hear the name of St. Luke, but surely his Gospel stands as one of the most important documents ...

Preachers have always moved men. Teachers instruct them, but preachers send them into action. A preacher, John Wesley, helped change England’s history; and that same nation was stirred toward the ...

"A preacher's anxiety" by Teri McDowell Ott sets me to pondering the mystery of preaching. Sometimes preaching is overshadowed by liturgy, administrative demands, pastoral responsibilities, and ...

This Sunday, we would love to have you with us to worship the creator of the universe, and to explore a, perhaps overlooked, aspect of Jesus that we need to emulate to have a full life in this world: ...

The preacher had to stand on a box so he could see over the pulpit. There Jakobe “Kobe” Cooper stood, sharply dressed in a white shirt, black bow tie, black pinstripe suit and black-and-white wing-tip ...

The gospels are not biographies in the modern sense of the word. Rather, they are stories told in such a way as to evoke a certain image of Jesus for a particular audience. They're trying to convey a ...

VATICAN CITY — Preaching long, spiritually empty homilies can reduce the Word of God to a mere set of abstract concepts that fail to awaken one's soul, Pope Francis said. "Even many homilies — I say ...

Staff Writer Selwyn Crawford reports: The legendary Dr. Zan W. Holmes, Jr. will return to the Dallas pulpit he helped make famous when he takes over next month at St. Luke "Community" United Methodist ...