LPTS Preach

I was also wondering that same point in my head as the discussion evolved.  I then remembered that the members of the local UCC Ministerium meet every week at 8 a.m.on Tuesday mornings for bible study and lectionary discussions.  I've put in a call, and I suspect the answer I will receive will affirm my suspicions that these individuals are all doing their initial thought time and devotional for the upcoming sermon in a group setting.  I like it. 

Last night in the Basic Preaching class we wrote sermons using two different preaching structures in small groups. People in one group commented that it would be nice if they could work in small groups every week to write their sermons. To that I say, "Why can't you?" For years it has been the practice of many pastors to routinely meet with other pastors in lectionary groups to do just this. They come together to discuss texts and exchange exegetical materials. They get ideas from each other…

Shawn Peters’ work is very thorough and well researched history of the Cantonsville Nine, a group of people who engaged in an act of political resistance (to the Vietnam War, racial discrimination and other injustices foreign and domestic).The Nine conducted a raid on a Selective Service office in Cantonsville, MD in which they boldly walked into the offices during working hours, took files of men who had registered for the draft, put them in wire trash baskets, and…

In this book, Johnston engages several faith development theories, that of James Fowler’s Stages of Faith most centrally, to argue the worth and importance of a post critical or mystic faith. By post critical, Johnston means a faith that a person settles into after they have gone through the process of critically interrogating the faith with which they are most familiar and found it wanting. In this post-critical phase, the person becomes a mystic or a person who “has an uplifting…