Pastors embrace Narrative Lectionary
This Advent, if you hear sermons about Daniel’s plight in the lion’s den, Joel’s urging to mourn and repent, and the promise of the Spirit in Isaiah, it’s most likely because your church’s worship planners are following the Narrative Lectionary. Created in 2010 through Luther Seminary, the Narrative Lectionary is gaining popularity among Mennonite churches…
Can preaching bring peace?
The annual Menno Simons Sermon Prize is seeking submissions from pastors and lay preachers from around the world in German, English, Dutch, French and Spanish before Dec. 1, 2020. The sermon—on the topic of peace—should have been preached before submission. Half of the prize money (over $3,000 Cdn) is given to the preacher; the remaining…
‘Preach it!’
Hands on his stomach, Allan Rudy-Froese walked a group of young preachers through exercises designed to make them feel at home and centred in their bodies by learning to recognize the part their abdominal muscles and their mouths—lips, tongues, palates and jaws—play in the delivery of a sermon. “Preaching is a physical art,” the associate…
