A sermon, per the Oxford Learner's Dictionary, is “a talk on a moral or religious subject, usually given by a religious leader during a service.” Sermons can be of different types and their delivery ...

Like other teachers of preaching, I listen to a lot of sermons, sometimes a dozen in a single day. I have noticed that this fact rarely evokes covetous sighs from my faculty colleagues, many of whom ...

How can our sermons bridge the division of our contentious moment? As I was working out at a local gym, my attention was drawn to the TV that hung from the ceiling. News anchors I didn’t know from a ...

Many surveys have asked Americans about their religious affiliations, beliefs and practices, including what religious group they belong to – if any – and how often they attend services at a church or ...

John Wesley, the preacher who crisscrossed Britain in the 18th century on a never-ending sermon tour, arrived in Deptford in 1739. He was hardly off his horse before he was preaching to a crowd jammed ...

Athletes call it being “in the zone.” Psychologists describe it as a state of “flow.” Musicians say it’s like being “in the pocket.” It’s that transcendent moment when time seems to slow down for an ...

Eureka First United Methodist Church Eureka (520 Del Norte St.): The Sunday worship service starts at 10 a.m. The Rev. Amy Beth Durward de Macias will be gone for the week, so Pam Coen will present a ...

It’s never fun but sometimes fruitful. As long as there are sermons, there will be bad sermons. And I hate preaching a bad sermon. I hate it because preaching is such a vulnerable activity. If I lead ...

“Now that I have preached about a dozen sermons I find I am repeating myself,” a young minister wrote despairingly in his diary in 1915. He was barely out of school and only a few months into his ...