by academyofpreachers | Jan 20, 2017 | Blog, Entrepreneurial Ministry, Young Preachers
“I never realized ministerial work could be entrepreneurial,” said Joshua Payne, AoP’17 as he sat in a workshop at the National Festival of Young Preachers. “I always associated the word ‘entrepreneur’ with the drive to make money.” * That is one of the many...
by academyofpreachers | Jan 20, 2017 | National festivals
“Christianity is about following the Way. I want to talk about that Way and the dream that can lead us there.” So said Michael Curry, Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church, as he preached the closing session of the 2017 National Festival of Young Preachers, an...
by academyofpreachers | Dec 26, 2016 | Dwight A. Moody, Sermons
Where is Jesus? Luke 2: 25-52 A Sermon by Dr. Dwight A. Moody Every day 2300 people are reported missing! Yes, you heard right: 2,300 are reported missing every day. Some are displaced by hurricanes and others are abducted by a distraught parent. An old man,...
by academyofpreachers | May 6, 2016 | Blog, Preaching Tips
Sally A Brown teaches at Princeton Seminary and Luke A Powery teaches at Duke Divinity, and no doubt they collaborated on this book while Luke was still in residence in Princeton as a scholar and professor. It is a good thing they did for this is a first class...
by academyofpreachers | May 5, 2016 | Academy of Preachers, Blog
Dr. Danny West Professor of Preaching Gardner-Webb University One of the greatest discoveries in the mystery of preaching is the inherent life form we discover in the Bible. It never fails. Just when we think we have seen it all, the text “sneaks” up on us...