Kevin DeYoung's The Hole in Our Holiness begins with an underlying premise that many Christians have ignored, misunderstood, or abandoned: God's call for us to become holy. DeYoung, a writer for The ...

Preaching is more than lecturing. It is more than exhortation. It brings Christ home to the hearts of men and confronts them with his living grace and power. It is not only that Christ is discussed—it ...

If my calculations are correct, I have listened to somewhere between 70 and 80 High Holy Days sermons. The total sounds high, but when you consider that typically four different High Holy Days sermons ...

Jennifer Stempel, a Los Angeles-based writer, changed her approach to life after hearing a High Holy Days sermon at Temple Emanuel of Beverly Hills. Stempel was shul-hopping when the wife of a Temple ...

Comedy writer Janet Leahy was working on an episode of “The Simpsons” a couple of years ago, when her rabbi asked her for three jokes to punch up his Rosh Hashanah sermon. With this year’s High Holy ...

For rabbis, the Jewish High Holidays are a ratings period. Synagogues are packed with people — many of whom attend only a few times a year — expecting to be impressed and even entertained by the ...

(RNS) — On Thursday, the rabbi asked his congregants what they wanted to hear on the High Holy Days. This is not a posthumous mystery book by Harry Kemelman, as in the classic Rabbi Small series: ...

Coming up with a different theme for a series of Holy Week sermons could tend to become a challenge, especially for the 25th time. That was the challenge facing Cliff Stewart, pastor of First Central ...

Your Eminences and Graces! Reverend rector, Father Leonid! Dear fathers, brothers, and sisters! I would like to sincerely congratulate all of you on the great feast of the Exaltation of the Precious, ...

The 13 October 1269—two coffins lay side by side on the high altar of Westminster Abbey. One was a reliquary, it was a holy thing. It had held the body of Edward the Confessor for the last hundred ...