Scapegoat: Who would bear the penalty if this innovative Easter service failed—the prop or the preacher? Rob Bell is becoming famous for his soul-stirring sermon from Leviticus 16 on the Day of ...

Martin Copenhaver’s insightful “Handshake ritual” catches the preacher’s attention. The more I am in this business the more ambivalent I feel about the traditional ritual of greeting worshipers after ...

Every Monday morning of my 16 years of preaching, I’d slide open my filing cabinet to add another sermon manuscript to the archive. When I couldn’t stuff one more into the drawer, I’d take the stack ...

The sermon is where we tighten the focus on our congregation, on our situation. It’s where everything gets down to us. The pastors of the church I grew up in didn’t know much about worship. They ...

I'm gonna do something new tonight. Maybe something that you're going to say at first is unethical, but I'm going to do it anyways. I'm gonna to plagiarize *** sermon, but it's *** game. Here's the ...

Editor's note: Look for a sermon or lesson from Houston's diverse faiths every week in Belief. Being hated and hating. That's how the apostle Paul describes the natural trajectory of a life untouched ...

Editor's note: Look for a sermon or lesson from Houston's diverse faiths every week in Belief. A number of years ago a beer commercial touted what was really a summary of the American ethic: "You only ...