"This is an evil generation that seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it except the sign of Jonah" (Luke 11:29). Gal 4:22-24, 26-27, 31–5:1; Luke 11:29-32 Trappist monk Thomas Merton (1915-1968) ...

Some Pharisees were skeptical of Jesus, and so they asked him to give them a sign to prove that he was from God. They wanted certainty; he invited them to take the path of discernment and faith. When ...

“If Protestantism ever dies with a dagger in its back, the dagger will be the Protestant sermon.” So quotes Donald Miller, a New Testament professor, from an unknown critic of preaching in The Way to ...

The history of preaching is a similarly vast subject covering two millennia, and O.C. Edwards Jr. has given us a very fine tour. Each of his portraits of a great preacher, an era of Christian thought, ...

COVID-19’s ministry disruptions are generating lasting insights. The sanctuary was empty. But that didn’t distract Claude Alexander. He had just finished preaching from Jeremiah 8 on the temptation to ...