It is not the preacher’s job to “make the text relevant”, but to underline, to emphasize how it is relevant to the particular listeners before us.

It does take effort, and prayer, and time, to make sense of the Bible, but no matter how tough some parts may be, it can be understood.

Let’s  do all we can to be the difference for every child and young person who chooses to journey with us.

What does the text say?  What does the text mean?  What should the text stir?  This is the Bible study process.

We seek to make that main idea so clear, transformative, evident from the text and applicationally earthed, that we will genuinely have preached the text before we sit down.

Learning to think clearly about your own thinking is a critical skill for the preacher. Study more. Study longer. Study humble. Study persistently.

No matter how clever you are, what you can make it say is not as good as what God made it say.

The Spanish Bible Society will also launch an audiovisual discipleship project, in addition to exhibitions, presentations in different formats and trainings.

Preaching is about exegesis and communication,pastoral care, leadership and discipleship, but it should be preeminently about prayer.

The Dutch Bible Society releases a study on the meaning, reading habits and impact of the Bible in the Netherlands.

We often make mistakes by misjudging others. We need a clean heart that asks for forgiveness,even when we are not to blame.

It is not enough to become informed in preparation for preaching. That truth needs to soak into our lives and bring about some level of transformation.

The input of children and young people with additional needs, and their families, can help us know the best way to journey with them and to support them.

Nonverbal communication is complex and can take more decoding than verbal communication, but it can be as rich and expressive if we are willing to learn it.

Preaching is not simply study a passage, write a message and deliver it. We need to be meticulous in our study, but selective in our sermon.

In times of struggle, we can look to the lives of those who have gone before us and take courage from the fact that their experiences can mirror our own. By Jacob Dunn.

We need a deeper understanding which transcends the distorted reflections of ourselves that we find in our own technology.

We are just like candles, shining a light on a part of the world that the world often chooses to ignore.

Parenting a child or young person with additional needs or disability can be isolating sometimes, and not everyone understands what it can be like.

Telling the story in different sensory ways  will help the story to become more accessible to children and young people.

Without context, God’s epoch-defining intervention in human history to rescue and transform the world, is turned into an anodyne children’s story.

Jean-Luc Ziehli, President of the Swiss Evangelical Alliance (RES) will represent the Swiss evangelicals, who have been invited to the Council for a probationary period.

Instead of simply provoking a celebratory nod from “the choir” in your church, why not clarify what you mean in your explanation, and what you mean by way of application? 

Prepare and preach a sermon that has a fingerprint as unique as the passage it is based on.

We often make mistakes by misjudging others.