catapult magazine

vol. 9, num. 14 :: 2010.07.09 — 2010.07.22

One of the few places adults still regularly gather after they graduate from school to listen to someone speak is in church. Admit it: your attention wanders as badly as your kids’. Or maybe you’re a note taker. Or maybe you can remember a sermon that changed something for you forever. What makes a good sermon—either from your perspective in the pews or in the pulpit?

Feature

Let him hear

by Lisa Van Dyk

A very short sermon on true religion.

Preaching as storytelling

by Joseph Morgan-Smith

Good news for those who have never been able to "get anything out of" the Bible.

Editorial

Bodily dysfunctions

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

Is this really what Jesus had in mind?

Articles

The word-free sermon

by Leon Burt

Remembering an uncle's embodied faith.

Ashes, ashes

by Denise Frame Harlan

Good news delivered from a dark pulpit on a Wednesday: dead is alive.

Getting real

by Alex Joyner

A retrospective toward authenticity in the pulpit.

A movable sermon

by Adam Navis

On crafting a homily that resonates.

Concerning why I preach barefoot

by Nick S.

A reflection on the connectedness of holiness, humility and homiletics.

Gallery

Angles

by Raymond Blanton

In case you missed it the first time

Together we slouch

by Kate Bowman Johnston

A sermon for the choir on transforming cynicism.

And heals all your diseases

by Dr. Stan Mast

A sermon on Psalm 103 from a service of healing.

To hell with Romans 13

by Brian Walsh

A sermon on one of the most commonly misused passages in canonized Scripture.

Weaving the web

Sermons You’d Never Hear in Church

Geez Magazine

Samplings from an issue on unconventional sermons.

Interview with Greg Boyd

Burnside Writers Collective

On the sermon series that launched 1,000 members -- into other churches.

daily asterisk

Even in a country you know by heart
its hard to go the same way twice
the life of the going changes.
The chances change and make a new way.
Any tree or stone or bird
can be the bud of a new direction. The
natural correction is to make intent
of accident. To get back before dark
is the art of going.

Wendell Berry
“Traveling at Home” from Traveling at Home

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