Paul’s model for preaching with a missional edge. Where does the sermon begin? I am all too familiar with the uneasy staring contest we preachers so often have with our blank screens—cursor blinking, ...

Preaching at the Areopagus, they laughed at him. Only a few were converted. Evangelically speaking, Paul’s famous sermon given before the good and the great of Athens was not all that successful.

An overview of the historical background and theology of Romans to help you develop your sermon series and apply it to your hearers. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans has been widely regarded as the most ...

It’s good for a homily to make you think. When was the last time it led you to pray? Seventeen years ago, Ricardo da Silva, S.J., heard one that did—and he never forgot it. He was a Jesuit novice in ...

Can we hear the Gospel message? We have ears, why can we not hear? The Parable of the Sower (Matthew 13:3-9) brings to our attention the fact that not all of us hear the same message when the same ...

While Paul was preaching this sermon in the church which was in the house of Onesiphorus, a certain virgin named Thecla (whose mother's name was Theoclia, and who was betrothed to a man named Thamyris ...

Preaching to academics is not always an easy job for any homilist or evangelist and I speak from personal experience here. In Chapter 17 of the Acts of the Apostles we read the account of St. Paul ...