3 Easter Sermon Examples—Based on a 4-Part Framework—to Inspire Your Preaching
As you craft your Holy Week and Easter sermons, consider this 4-part, general scaffold to discern a message for any sermon—with examples of three Easter-tide sermons to illustrate the concept and inspire your own Easter preaching.
How to Craft a Prophetic Sermon that Bridges the Divide
When emotions and political tensions run high, preaching prophetically becomes ever-more fraught. Using the example of a fellow preacher’s sermon, consider these three components of sermons that offer challenging messages in a way that bridges the divide.
On Preaching Politics and the Way of Christian Love: The Example of Bishop Curry
Preachers find themselves in a conundrum: listeners perceive sermon messages that address the ills of our current culture—like racism, climate change, or wearing masks—as subjects unbecoming to the pulpit. I want to offer an example of a recent sermon that effectively navigates this challenge. Read on to see how preachers can cast a vision for God’s kingdom on earth as it is in heaven, particularly as it relates to our present struggles.
Preaching & Comedy? "Thou Shalt Achieve World Peace Through Humor" (A Guest Post)
“Comedians have long known a secret that world and religious leaders struggle to understand to this day: humor is the key to world peace.”
How to Write a Good Sermon: Your Guide to Transformative Preaching
Filled with practical advice you can apply right away, this guide will help you craft more compelling sermons that keep your listeners thinking and talking long after the benediction.
Preaching to Remove White-Colored Glasses
There are distinct stages of transformation, and our listeners are going to be somewhere on this spectrum, just as we are. Call them into work beyond their current stage, and they may resist change even more. Instead, we need to shift our preaching to meet folks at the stage they’re at in order to move them to the next.
How to Craft an Online Memorial Service
In the absence of traditional funerals and memorial services, how can we help those in mourning grieve well? What kinds of meaningful rituals and ceremonies can we create in the absence of in-person gatherings?
How to reach congregants who aren't online (+ a few best practices for serving those who are)
You’ve moved your services online and are finding your new rhythm. But how do you help those without the technology or tech savvy to participate in church from home?
How to Craft an Easter Sermon that Speaks to the Truth of Our Current Circumstances
This short video demonstrates in real time a brainstorming process—utilizing story structure—to craft an Easter sermon that will resonate with our present reality. Blessings as you preach this holiest of weeks, Dear Preachers.
The Simple but Misunderstood Key to Keeping Listeners Engaged: How to "Show" Rather than "Tell"
It’s often hard work for adults to get literal when it comes to using the five senses. We tend to leap from image to meaning so fast we don’t recognize what we did. But that leap fails to draw our listeners in, to make them feel something. And the more your audience feels, the greater the impact of the story and your sermon.