Of a pastor's numerous activities, sermon preparation ranks as the one which takes most time. Surveys indicate an average of ten to fifteen hours a week, and that average doesn't include the hours of ...

The first sermon I ever preached was as a youth ministry intern, more than twenty years and a thousand teachings ago. The text was from Matthew 14, the story of Jesus walking on water. But I didn’t ...

When I was attending Calvin Theological Seminary, someone somewhere along the line gave me a good piece of advice. He told me that when I became a pastor of a congregation, if the consistory (or the ...