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Whether you're planning a spring sermon series or preparing to step away from the pulpit for the summer, these articles will help ensure that every sermon your congregation hears is well-prepared.

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Seasoned Salt
His Eye Is on the Pastors
God sees and watches (as do others), which is both a comfort and a caution as pastors navigate their calling.

Dennis R. Edwards
Preaching
Advent and the Ultimate Embrace of Love
Jesus tags Daniel's vision to talk about his own return and the Christmas birth of new creation.

Elizabeth Shively
Preaching
10 Things We Learned about Medicine and Illness in Bible Times
Insights for Covidtide from “The Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical and Post-Biblical Antiquity.”

Compiled by Ted Olsen
Leadership
The Celebrity Pastor Problem Is Every Church’s Struggle
How our ministry policies and practices can push back against entitlement.

Rich Villodas
Leadership
US Megachurches Are Getting Bigger and Thinking Smaller
Church growth has corresponded with a huge jump in multisite locations and deeper engagement in small groups.

Maria Baer
Preaching
When Words About God Become the Word of the Lord
Decades of listening to sermons have convinced me of these four truths.

Nathan Hatch
Leadership
How Codependency Hampered My Pastoral Ministry
Part of the emotional drain I felt during the pandemic came from trying to manage my members’ feelings.

Ike Miller
Places and Spaces
We Need to Reset the Rules of Cultural Engagement
The old, tried-and-true strategies don’t reflect the new world we live in. It’s time for an update.

Darrell Bock
Discipleship
Is Being Right Always the Right Thing?
Jesus and Peter teach us that correctness isn’t always a virtue.

Jeff Peabody
Preaching
Research Roundup: Preaching Takeaways from the Latest in Social Science
Because, as Karl Barth never said, a pastor should read the Bible in one hand, the newspaper in the other, and a peer-reviewed social science journal in another.

Compiled by Ted Olsen