Jim Wallis talks about how congregations, communities of faith and other pastors help to pull sermons out of preachers....

Anna Carter Florence shares an example of how she opens up the biblical text, to see and hear new things in a familiar text....

Mike Slaughter reminds preachers of the need to wrestle with the living Word....

Mike Housholder talks about how we move from text to sermon with a particular eye on the individuals in our congregations....

Teresa Fry Brown offers some advice for pastors who are trying to be faithful in their calling....

Eugene Peterson reflects on what he wants to hear in sermons, and by extension what people in the pews are hungry for....

Michael thinks about how the Word becomes flesh in our preaching....

David shares the "two and a half" things needed for a great sermon....

Barbara talks about the multiplicity of things happening in a biblical text and then focusing on a particular aspect when writing the sermon...

Tom Long thinks about the challenge of preaching on Christmas and offers some counsel for preachers doing so....