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25 mins read|04/13/24Rituals, like the liturgy and the sacraments, resist domestication and confront us with a world and worldview brought forth from the Bible and through twenty centuries of Christianity for the purpose of arresting our contemporary worldview through its self-sameness.
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14 mins read|12/24/22Despite our best efforts to avoid him, King Jesus remains very much unavoidable.
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9 mins read|01/22/22Justification and regeneration are, therefore, necessarily connected and have profound implications upon the craft of preaching.
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14 mins read|12/31/21Your delivery may be perceived as an asset or an obstacle to heralding the message of our Lord. What may help your delivery is a touch of theatrics.
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9 mins read|12/25/21In preaching, auditors are informed and instructed on hearing the voice of the Other, not themselves or contemporary resonances.
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17 mins read|12/19/21What would the world be like without Christmas? That is, what would it be like without the declaration of Christmas: “For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord”?
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13 mins read|07/24/21Ascertaining the what and how of the Church greatly factor into the very purpose of the Church, that is, they essentially answer the question why the Church?
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18 mins read|06/20/21This is the litmus test for a Christian sermon: Did Christ have to die upon the cross for me to be able to say this and to say it as His very own message?
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25 mins read|10/04/20In the pursuit of democratizing the worship experience, we go from hearing the voice of God to hearing voices and in some cases hearing our own voice!
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13 mins read|08/23/20When it comes to the sermon, a Christian congregation should not expect a conversation from a friend or a TED Talk from an expert. Instead, they should anticipate a royal proclamation from the King’s ambassador.
