In his role on the frontline with Fellowship Bible Church in Victoria, Pastor Clayton Lopez, 58, enjoys watching God work in people’s lives. In 2013, Lopez moved to Victoria from North Carolina with ...

I am mostly a utilitarian reader. For 40 years I have been writing and preaching sermons weekly, and I have come to rely on the almost exact relationship between the quality and quantity of my reading ...

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 ...

FUERTH, Germany — The artificial intelligence chatbot asked the believers in the fully packed St. Paul’s church in the Bavarian town of Fuerth to rise from the pews and praise the Lord. The ChatGPT ...

Of all John Wesley’s memorable lines, my favorite is from his April 2, 1739 journal entry, about having preached for the first time outside the confines of the pulpit: “At four in the afternoon I ...

The following sermon was preached by the Rev. Gilbert M. Beenken, pastor, at the Oliver Presbyterian Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is structurally excellent and scripturally undergirded ...

Preachers' favoritism for the epistles—with brief forays into the gospels or Wisdom literature—is well known. It's unfortunate that such a disproportionate amount of pulpit time is given to some ...

Preaching is the central part of most Protestant church services. As part of the service the Bible will be read and then the minster or pastor will explain the passage and help the congregation to ...