Pilgrim Preaching

Greek NT Link

Corrected version: An American theology student has put together a site for working with New Testament Greek. You can read the whole NT there and mouse over words to get a lexicon definition and parsing. There is also a cool part of the site that creates graphs of occurrences when you click on a Greek word. Zack's site is all free and it's at http://zhubert.com/.

Fifteen Commandments

Reading Gracia Grindal's "Fifteen Commandments for Preaching" again inspired me to ask Word & World for permission to publish them on the web, which was granted. Here they are. The source is an article by the same name in Word & World 19 (1999) : 71-82.

By the way, I heard a rumor that Pr. Karl Hester once prepared a sermon with these commandments in mind in, let's just say, a special way. If I can track that sermon down, I'll post a link here.

Preaching Helps

Just in time for your holiday gift giving (or January book allowance buying), I have to plug a particular lectionary help volume that I continue to return to when I'm preaching. The Year C volume was published in 1994.

It's a three-volume collection (each sold separately) titled Preaching through the Christian Year, published by Trinity Press International. The authors are Fred B. Craddock, John H. Hayes, Carl R. Holliday, and Gene M. Tucker. It is almost always excellent pump-priming material for my own preaching. The exegesis is sound and not so technical that you're sorry you asked in the first place. And the sermon ideas are thought-provoking if not always the direction I head. The book for Year C is $21.00 at Amazon. Seminary and Div. School bookstores usually have them in stock, too.