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Free Text or Lectionary Preaching?

This three-part series analyzes three subtle but significant criticisms of lectionary preaching. It offers meaningful resistance to what might be a largely unexamined assumption: that series preaching is the way of the future because it somehow offers unique advantages for ministering to the kind of people shaped by contemporary American culture. It makes the case that lectionary preaching remains the best preaching paradigm for Lutherans in our time and place.

Prof. Tiefel discussed preaching on the First or Second Reading with the day’s Gospel in mind.

Rev. Nathan Nass encourages pastors to preach simply and clearly for the benefit of all hearers.

Pastor Joel Gawrisch writes a series titled “Treasures Old and New.”

This issue of Preach the Word begins a new series: preaching to Millennials while maintaining connection with other generations.
This series, planned in cooperation with the Commission on Evangelism, departs from previous custom with a different writer for each issue.