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 Final in a four-part series of videos on how to embody Scripture in worship In this fourth video, Sam Bardwell demonstrates how to proclaim Scripture in a full-throated, soulful way.In this exercise, Bardwell delivers the alternate psalm for the Fourth Sunday of Advent (Luke 1:46-55) using only the read more...

How to Embody Scripture: Soulful Proclamation (4 of 4)

 Third in a four-part series of videos on how to embody Scripture in worship In the third video, Sam Bardwell demonstrates how to proclaim Scripture with strength that comes not from the reader, but from God.In this exercise, Bardwell delivers the psalm for the Third Sunday of Advent (Isaiah 12:2-6) read more...

How to Embody Scripture: Strength from God (3 of 4)

Second in a four-part series of videos on how to embody Scripture in worship In the second video, Sam Bardwell demonstrates how to proclaim Scripture from the heart.After a brief introduction, Bardwell delivers the epistle for the Second Sunday of Advent (Philippians 1:3-11) after reciting the passage read more...

How to Embody Scripture: Reading from the Heart (2 of 4)

First in a four-part series of videos on how to embody Scripture in worship In this 10-minute video, Sam Bardwell demonstrates how to read Bible passages in Advent effectively, so that not one word is lost.After a brief introduction, Bardwell delivers the psalm for First Sunday of Advent (Psalm 25) twice: read more...

How to Embody Scripture: Verbal Volleys (1 of 4)

  Otis Moss III reflects on ways to preach to different generations within the same congregation. The preacher, according to Moss, is a prophetic clarifier who can best communicate with those audiences if he or she is also a student of the culture. Otis Moss, III will be speaking and preaching read more...

Preaching Moment 317: Otis Moss III on Preaching to Different Generations

Yvette Flunder reflects on the current state of Christianity in the US and sees in it a moment of reformation being worked by the Spirit. "What we are lamenting about -- what we're calling, essentially, hemorrhaging from mainline church -- is the stuff of reformation." read more...

Preaching Moment 316: Yvette Flunder on Reformation in the Church

Luke Powery explores the way that text and context relate in the sermon, advocating for fusing the biblical world and our world without judgment. "When it comes to the judgment that a preacher could pass down on the things that are happening in culture, that's where I think there are some possible dead read more...

Preaching Moment 315: Luke Powery on Preaching and Culture

Anthony Bailey explores the many different factors that influence the hearers of a sermon and the way a sermon is held accountable to those factors. "Being accountable in our preaching is attending to what is necessary to enliven, embolden, challenge, heal, bless, and maybe even sometimes coerce, the read more...

Preaching Moment 314: Anthony Bailey on Accountable Preaching

Luke Powery expounds on the problem of using the language and models of business to characterize the ministry of the church. "No one went to seminary to learn how to run a meeting ...  We came to seminary to learn about ministry, to serve God's people, to get connected to what God's doing in the read more...

Preaching Moment 313: Luke Powery on the Business Model

Luke Powery argues that a limited imagination of who God is and what God can do limits the ministry of the church and its vision for the future. "If we are a resurrection people, an Easter people, anything is possible.  Just like the open grave, the future is not closed, it's open." read more...

Preaching Moment 312: Luke Powery on What Holds Us Back

Lauren Winner shares her thought process on using personal stories in the pulpit and relates the craft of preaching to communal prayer. "Each year, preaching seems to reveal itself more to be prayer for and with my congregation." read more...

Preaching Moment 311: Lauren Winner on Personal Stories

Yvette Flunder describes how she selects texts for her sermons, beginning with the situations of her hearers and moving to the biblical witness. "Oftentimes the last place I go to finish up the sermon is the text, because I'm going to be looking for a witness from one of the Bible writers." read more...

Preaching Moment 310: Yvette Flunder on Selecting Texts

Anthony Bailey explains how the words of our worship often have unintended negative implications and argues that liturgical language must be critiqued by the whole community in order to worship faithfully. "We need the community because there are no experts who are devoid of blind spots; we need the read more...

Preaching Moment 309: Anthony Bailey on Liturgical Language

Luke Powery discusses when a text moves the preacher to preach counter-culturally and the tension involved in that undertaking. "How does one preach against the powers when one is propped up by the powers?  And I think I just live in that tension." read more...

Preaching Moment 308: Luke Powery on Preaching Counter-culturally

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