Features

• Talking Preaching: For 20 Years, Preaching Magazine Has Interviewed the Nation’s Premier Preachers
• Constant Change: Where Preaching Has Been In The Last 20 Years and Where It Is Going by Rick Ezell
• How Do People Listen to Sermons? by Ronald J. Allen
• To Note or Not to Note? by Grant McDowell
• Transgenerational Preaching by Jere L. Phillips

Sermons

• Hit by Friendly Fire: What to Do When Christians Hurt You (Genesis 50:15-21; Philippians 3:8-10) by Michael Milton
• Answers for Unanswered Prayer (Exodus 2:22-23) by Gary E. Yates
• What God Taught Me Through My Wife's Cancer (John 1:5) by John Duncan
• Living on Purpose (Joshua 24:15) by Don M. Aycock

Columns

• From the Lectionary
  
  -- Proper 18 (A) - September 4, 2005
  
  The Unpaid Debt (Romans 13:8-14)
  
  -- Proper 19 (A) - September 11, 2005
  
  When Christians Differ (Romans 14:1-12)
  
  --Proper 20 (A) - September 18, 2005
  
  To Die Is Gain - Philippians 1:20-30
  
  -- Proper 21 (A) - September 25, 2005
  
  How Near Is God? - Exodus 17:1-7
  
  -- Proper 22 (A) - October 2, 2005
  
  A Life of Passion (Philippians 3:4b-14)
  
  -- Proper 23 (A) - October 9, 2005
  
  Standing Fast in the Lord (Philippians 4:1-9)
  
  -- Proper 24 (A) - October 16, 2005
  
  The Motivation of Ministry (1 Thessalonians 1:1-10)
  
  -- Proper 25 (A) - October 23, 2005
  
  Maintaining Relationships on the Run ((1 Thessalonians 2:1-8)
  
  -- Proper 26 (A) - October 30, 2005
  
  Moving By Faith (Joshua 3:1-17)
  
  
  

• To Illustrate
• The Preacher’s Bookshelf: 
  
  On Jordan's Stormy Banks by H. Beecher Hicks
  
  The Words of Gardner Taylor (Vol. 1-6) By Gardner C. Taylor   
• Back Page Pulpit: Things I've learned in the past twenty years by Michael Duduit