The Rev. Calvin McKinney is the first to admit his preaching can cause discomfort. “It may sometimes be against the grain of your expectation,” he said during a recent weeknight prayer meeting at ...

The word that keeps coming back is hunger. Scholars talk about it, but so do preachers and parishioners. The reason that preaching is enjoying a revival in churches where it was a dying art, say ...

Good preaching traditionally comes in many forms. Some preachers spring back and forth from the pulpit, with a drop-step here and a leg kick there. Others, such as displayed this week by the Rev.

Recent books on culturally distinct preaching challenge misconceptions and equip diverse pastors to better address a multiethnic world. In the mid-1980s, as a new believer fresh out of college, I ...

CARRSVILLE – Emphatic and commanding, the Rev. Robert E. Rodgers’ rich baritone rang over a placid congregation as he preached at Pulaski Baptist Church on a recent Sunday. Twenty minutes later, his ...

Those who study hermeneutics will say there are at least four distinct preaching styles. This is because not every pastor approaches preaching identically. Even if they belong to the same denomination ...

Learn to develop your preaching voice. Members of pulpit committees often share with me their findings as they travel from one church to another in search of a new minister. I am constantly amazed, ...

Listen to Pope Francis preach and you start to notice some patterns. His homilies are not complicated. He speaks in stories and images, and sticks to one simple theme. He does not worry about ...

It is fair to condemn the language and to disagree with the substance of now-infamous comments by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. However, to characterize his statements as “rants,” “raves” or “on the verge ...