Helmut Gollwitzer on the Tower of Babel: How to Preach the Old Testament by Example (April 11, 2019)

The Way to Life: Sermons in a Time of World Crisis is a collection of sermons by Helmut Gollwitzer (an assistant of Karl Barth), and one of which is an excellent exposition of the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9) that exemplifies how to preach etiological saga in the Old Testament […]

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How to Preach a Sermon like the Apostles (featuring C. H. Dodd) (September 12, 2018)

The art of preaching is called homiletics, and it is mostly bad art. I've heard so many bad sermons in my life that at times I wish the sermon was abolished. When the terrible sermons are finally over, I remember that the proclamation of the church (even in its worst form), […]

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Helmut Gollwitzer on How to Preach the Word (October 17, 2014)

Helmut Gollwitzer died 21 years ago today (source: wikipedia) Helmut Gollwitzer (1908-1993) died 21 years ago today. I was first introduced to this amazing theologian by Dr. W. Travis McMaken, in his recommendation of Gollwitzer's The Way To Life: Sermons in a Time of World Crisis. In the forward, Gollwitzer's amazing life […]

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