Opinionated Vicar

from the Telegraph: According to new research, churchgoers would far rather clergy stick to serious topics and leave the jokes to the come...

"It is one thing to say something quite another to have it listened to a distinct third to have it understood a different matter again ...

3120 sermons. That's how many sermons a person will hear if they go to church every Sunday for 60 years. More, if they take the God Cha...

I've just signed up for a Comedy for Clergy workshop at next months Christian Resources Exhibition. Don't laugh. Actually, let me r...

"The congregation assumes that we mean what we say and seldom asks us, 'do you actually believe that stuff or are you just paid to ...

Ht The Church Sofa

A couple of lovely lists: Biblical Preaching is offering 50 'preaching tweaks' - small experiments and one-degree shifts in pre...

Two of our church members told me today they were encouraged by something I'd said in my sermon yesterday. My ears pricked up, my encour...

Just finished reading George Lings latest 'Encounters on the Edge' about Crossnet in Bristol. These are always worth reading, and t...

The BBC has a piece today about the role of the stomach in emotions and mood all those neurons lining our digestive system allow it to ke...

Hot on the heels of the Holy Water Bucket , another corker from Kevin Mayhew Yes, with the Digital Lectern you can 'look at your notes...

Easter is not a time to get fancy. The goal of the Easter sermon is not to impress people with your oratory skills, your Greek syntax expert...

Excellent post by Steve Tilley on how to avoid indigestion in teaching settings: A colleague of mine used to say that discussion groups a...

'its not enough to question authority, you've got to speak with it too' Ht Michael Hyatt

' "That reminds me of a story" 6 words that strike terror into the heart of a congregation.' didn't have anything ...

Pete at Postmodern Bible has blogged some more on the CODEC survey on sermons, and what people expected, and got, through the preaching in t...

Following the brief flurry in the blogosphere earlier this week, which greeted the news that over 96% of churchgoers looked forward to the s...

From the Times today ...some ember still seems to burn in Britain’s 3.6 million regular churchgoers, for almost all of them feel a sense of ...

Journalist Will Braun took a random Sunday, and downloaded the sermons from the 10 biggest churches in the US, and the 10 biggest in Canada,...

Jonny Baker 's provocative thoughts on preaching, " Throwing a hand grenade in the fruitbowl ", has just been published as a G...