Features

• Communicating with Creativity by Ed Young, Jr.
• Messages That Connect: An Interview with Alan Nelson 
• One Picture is Worth: A Survey of Video Resources for Preaching by Michael Duduit
• The Fallen-Condition Focus and the Purpose of the Sermon by Bryan Chapell
• Preaching Wisdom by Greg Hollifield
• The Preacher Under Pressure: Crunch-time for the Christian Communicator by David L. Larsen

Sermons

• When God Seems Absent by John Ortberg
• The Sound of Grace (Titus 2:11-14) by Tiberius Rata
• A Ministry That Is Not in Vain (1 Thessalonians 2:1-12) by Bill D. Whittaker
• Living as Exiles (Jeremiah 29:1, 4-7, 11; Philippians 3:17-4:1) by Craig M. Watts

 Columns

• From the Lectionary
  
  -- Prayer 9 (A) - July 3, 2005
  
  Finding Your Spiritual Home (Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30)
  
  -- Proper 10 (A) - July 10, 2005
  
  The Problem of Ineffective Christianity (Matthew 13:1-9, 18-23)
  
  -- Proper 11 (A) - July 17, 2005
  
  The Problem with Counterfeit Christianity (Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43)
  
  -- Proper 12 (A) - July 24, 2005
  
  Show Me The Kingdom (Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52)
  
  -- Proper 13 (A) - July 31, 2005
  
  Dinner on the Grounds! (Matthew 14:13-21)
  
  -- Proper 14 (A) - August 7, 2005
  
  Take A Walk onn the Wild-Water Side (Matthew 14:22-33)
  
  -- Proper 15 (A) - August 14, 2005
  
  Getting in the Way of a Blessing - (Matthew 15:10-20, 21-28)
  
  -- Proper 16 (A) - August 21, 2005
  
  Who is Jesus? (Matthew 16:13-20)
  
  -- Proper 17 (A) - August 28, 2005
  
  Walking with Christ (Romans 12:9-21)
  

• To Illustrate
• The Preacher’s Bookshelf: Nobody's Perfect, But You have to Be by Dean Shriver
• Preacher to Preacher: The Biggest Word in Preaching by Robert Leslie Holmes 
• Back Page Pulpit: Pulpit or Picket by Michael Duduit