Features

• Why Men Hate Going to Church: An Interview with David Murrow 
• Negotiating the Red Zone: Taking Your Sermons to a Successful Conclusion by Joe McKeever
• Sensitive Preaching on Sexual Topics by Sam Serio 
• When Pastors Need a Pastor: An Interview with H.B. London 
• Preaching the Parables of Jesus by Fred Penney
• The Year’s Best Software for Preachers: 2005 Edition by Jonathan Kever

Sermons

• When God Opens a Door (Revelation 3:7-13) by Steve Wende
• Corpses in the Sand (Exodus 2) by Kenneth O. Gangel
• When God Doesn’t Make Sense (Acts 21:37-28:31) by Chuck Sackett
• Surprise! (Ephesians 2:1-10) by Gary D. Robinson

Columns

• From the Lectionary
  
  -- Proper 27 (A) November 6, 2005
  
  Don't Miss the Wedding (Matthew 25:1-13)
  
  -- Proper 28 (A) November 13, 2005
  
  A Matter of Trust (Matthew 25:14-30)
  
  -- Proper 29 (A) November 20, 2005
  
  A Pastor in Prayer (Ephesians 1:15-23)
  
  -- First Sunday of Advent (B) November 27, 2005
  
  Confession Brings Healing (Isaiah 64:1-9)
  
  -- Second Sunday of Advent (B) December 4, 2005
  
  God's Redeeming Love (Isaiah 40:1-11)
  
  --Third Sunday of Advent (B) December 11, 2005
  
  The True Meaning of Christmas (Isaiah 61:1-4, 8-11)
  
  -- Fourth Sunday of Advent (B) - December 18, 2005
  
  Summing It Up Simply (Romans 16:25-27)
  
  --First Sunday After Christmas (B) December 29, 2005
  
  Promises, Promises (Luke 2:22-40)
  
   
  
   
• To Illustrate
• The Preacher’s Bookshelf
  
  The Art & Craft of Biblical Preaching edited by Haddon Robinson and Craig Brian Larsen
  
  Preaching Parables to Postmoderns by Brian C. Stiller
  
  The Homiletic of All Believers by O. Wesley Allen Jr. 
• Past Masters: Hugh Latimer by Stewart Holloway 
• Preacher to Preachers: For Sunday or Eternity by Robert Leslie Holmes 
• Proclaiming the Word: Proclamation Demands an Invitation by Jerry Drace 
• Back Page Pulpit: A pre-owned rose is still a used flower by Michael Duduit