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 ...

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 ...

United Church of Christ minister F. Russell Mitman transfigures the pulpit with his conviction that preaching is more than a seated activity within the walls of the local church. Because “there is one ...

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 ...

Jesus’ family tree offers more than a history lesson. We joke that most people fear public speaking more than death, but this has not been the case for me. I am frequently behind a microphone teaching ...

Today is the 3rd Sunday in Ordinary time and the gospel is about the beginning of the Galilean Ministry of our Lord Jesus Christ. You can read this gospel passage in Mark 1:14-20. “After John was ...

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 ...