Mark Buchanan

Preaching and the Spirit

The use of logos, pathos, and ethos in our preaching.

Shape your sermon around what the text is trying to do, not just what it’s trying to say.

How and why I abandoned creativity in my Advent preaching.

Three suggestions for becoming preachers who turn the world on its head.

Legally.

Who, me?

Choosing the right leaders may have more to do with your nose than your brain.

My first week on the job included an exorcism and suicide.

Why I gave my wife calendar control.

Scripture places emormous emphasis on the renewal of our minds.

How a doctor showed me that efficiency can be another word for the sin of impatience.

If you’re not living for Christ, your life is failing even if you’re “winning.”

How did I become so dependent on digital media?

Questions to help discern where God’s leading.

Leading God’s people means seeking God’s guidance.

Jesus’ revolutionary touch puts transformation within reach.

Satan’s disdain for humanity runs deep.

God welcomes us with costly, extravagant love and then he calls us to share his love with the world.

The loss of a friend sparked an extended time of dryness.

How should the people of Christ think about Columbus Day?

Helping you develop your signature method of preparing a message

God displays his incomparable wisdom in unlikely places—like at the Cross and in the church.

Jesus is looking for people who are willing to say, “Here I am, God. Send me.”

Life without ambition isn’t what God wants from us.

Nothing is more transforming—and commissioning—than the love of Christ.

We tend to resent the message of the parable of the vineyard, but it’s about God’s great generosity, not about what we’re owed.

One church’s attempt to do justly

Just as we have a kingdom responsibility to manage the material things that God gives us, so we have a kingdom responsibility to manage the immaterial things he gives.

Why repentance is always good news.

The kingdom of God flurishes in the most unlikely facilities.

Christ is worthy of the long journey to find him and worship him.

Paul lays out clear steps for peacemaking: rejoice in the Lord, be gentle, pray with thanksgiving, and think about virtues.

Courage encourages others to be courageous, exalts Christ, and displays God’s supremacy.

The risk of welcoming those nobody else wants.

A failure of unity among God’s people is a refusal to be part of the mission that God is doing in the world.

Holding on to tradition in a world of endless innovation.

A foretaste of heaven

God breaks through the desolate places.

The wasteland of spiritual barrenness

Reaping a spiritual harvest

What kind of groundwork leads to real community?

My personal journey in preaching the gospel

The three groups of people for whom we need agape love are the losers, the winners, and our enemies.

The one power that can conquer hatred, cast out fear, overcome evil, and endure through time is love.

When we live in expectancy, rather than expectation, we are open to the person of Christ.

When we pray believing and pray forgiving, we give our hearts to God and his kingdom.

By ascribing to God his attributes, we draw near to the place where he is.

What kind of groundwork leads to real community?

Are you willing to take apart the church to bring people to Jesus?

There’s something about worship that can drive even a king to strip down and leap up.

To both experience and celebrate God’s grace, we must allow him to swallow us whole.

We must follow God without fear or compromise.

Glocalization: How Followers of Christ Engage the New Flat Earth book review.

Are you willing to take apart the church to bring people to Jesus?

What Esther and Jonah can teach us about proclaiming heaven’s Word in a fallen world.

How do we respond to a corrupted culture? Two faulty examples and a better one.

You’ve got to reignite the flames Sunday after Sunday

4 spiritual disciplines to keep fights from scarring your soul.

How do you pastor someone who doesn’t see a need for God?