Features

• Preaching to the Emerging Church: An Interview with Dan Kimball
• Studying the Word: Preaching's Annual Survey of the Year's Best in Bibles and Bible Reference Works 
• Preaching the Take-out Sermon by Tim McQuade
• The Preacher as Holy Fool: Humor as Homiletical Heuristics by Blayne A. Blanting
• I Stand Here Testifying: Applying Paul's Use of Autobiography to Our Preaching by James Barnette

Sermons

• Fatal Temptations Seniors Face (Titus 2:1-5) by Bob Russell
• The Greatest Gift Ever Given (John 3:16-21) by Marvin A. McMickle
• Packing Up Christmas for Another Year (Jeremiah 31:7-14 & John 1:10-18) by Jimmy Gentry
• Living with Hope in the Face of Despair (Romans 5:1-10) by John Davis

Columns

• From the Lectionary
  
  -- Epiphany of the Lord (A) January 2, 2005
  
  How to Cope with Calamity (Isaiah 60:1-6)
  
  -- Baptism of the Lord (A) January 9, 2005
  
  Pilgramage from Prejudice (Acts 10:34-43)
  
  -- Second Sunday after Epiphany (January 16, 2005)
  
  "Look, the Lamb of God" (John 1:29-42)
  
  -- Third Sunday after Epiphany (A) January 23, 2005
  
  So, What's the Good News? (Matthew 4:12-17; Isaiah 9:1-4)
  
  -- Fourth Sunday after Epiphany (A) January 30, 2005
  
  3 Simple Rules (Micah 6:1-8)
  
  -- Transfiguration Sunday (A) February 6, 2005
  
  Can I get a Witness (2 Peter 1:16-21)
  
  -- First Sunday in Lent (A) February 13, 2005
  
  Understanding Our Story (Romans 5:12-19)
  
  -- Second Sunday in Lent (A) February 20,, 2005
  
  The Unexpected Joy of Forgiveness (Romans 4:1-5, 13-17)
  
  -- Third Sunday in Lent (A) February 27, 2005
  
  The Joy of Being Right with God (Romans 5:1-11)
  
   
• To Illustrate
• Preacher's Bookshelf
  
  Unceasing Worship: Biblical Perspectives on Worship and the Arts by Harold M. Best 
• Exploring the Word: The Testings of the Christian Life by John Phillips 
• Pastor to Pastor: Appealing But Not "A-Pauline!"  by Robert Leslie Holmes
• Back Page Pulpit: Creative worship takes on a new meaning by Michael Duduit