Features

• Preaching Creatively: An Interview with Ed Young, Jr. 
• Following Ben: Expository Preaching in the Pastoral Setting by Michael Milton
• The Difference Between Milk and Meat by Dan Nehrbass
• Preaching and Passion: An Interview with Robert Smith 
• Developing Biographical Narratives: Insights for Preaching from Charles Swindoll by Joe Alain
• The Year's Best Books for Preachers by R. Albert Mohler
• Books on Preaching: Looking at some of the past year's best by Michael Duduit
• More on Books: The history of preaching draws attention by David L. Larsen

Sermons

• Sin Vaccination (Genesis 3:1-7) by Max Lucado
• Handling Life When You’re Hot, Dry, and Donkeyless (1 Samuel 9:1-6, 14-17) by Ed Bonniwell
• Dancing in the Graveyard (Job 19:25-27) by Allen F. Harrod

Columns

• From the Lectionary
  
  --Fourth Sunday in Lent (A) - March 6, 2005
  
  Send the Light (John 9:1-41 NKJV)
  
  -- Fifth Sunday in Lent (A) - March 13, 2005
  
  It's A Matter of Life and Death (John 11:1-45)
  
  -- Passion / Palm Sunday (A) - March 20, 2005
  
  I Have a Dream (Matthew 27: 11-54)
  
  -- Easter Sunday (A) March 27, 2005
  
  Ground-Breaking (John 20:1-18)
  
  -- First Sunday After Easter (A) - April 3, 2005
  
  The Grand Opening (John 20:19-31)
  
  --Second Sunday After Easter (A) - April 10, 2005
  
  The Breach in the Great, Dark Wall (Luke 24:13-35)
  
  --Fourth Sunday of Easter (A) - April 17, 2005
  
  The Church God Blesses (Acts 2:42-47)
  
  -- Fifth Sunday of Easter (A) April 24, 2005
  
  Living the Worthwhile Life (Acts 7:54-60)
  
  -- Sixth Sunday of Easter (A) - May 1, 2005
  
  How to Catch Difficult People (Acts 17:22-31)
  

• To Illustrate
• Past Masters: Philips Brooks - American Icon 
• Exploring the Word: Jesus and Materialism 
• Back Page Pulpit: The Call of the Mild