A few days before Easter, as senior pastor Bradley Schmeling of St. Paul’s Gloria Dei Lutheran Church prepared to write his sermon, he recalled the advice of someone sitting in the pews.

I noticed an early draft of my Easter sermon notes. They were full of the ... and craft vivid illustrations for our people—but if we’re not embracing it ourselves, we’re missing the point.

An early medieval version of the tale goes like this: ‘When the holy apostle became very weak, the blessed Jerome relates, his disciples carried him to the church, but he was no longer able to give ...

Over these last weeks of Easter, we have been focusing on the Gospel accounts of the first Easter morning, and the events immediately afterwards. Today, we take what might at first glance seem like a ...

As part of the collaboration, Come and See is working with Outreach, Inc. to offer free church kits ahead of Easter, which include one- or three-day sermon maps, curated video clips from the ...

Hoyne Ave. Anthony Vazquez / Sun-Times Share As he planned his Easter Sunday sermon, James Ford Jr., pastor of Christ Bible Church on the South Side, says he was thinking, like many clergy members ...

Easter is traditionally a day of great joy ... That day, her pastor said in a sermon illustration that if Ramesh and a few others died for Christ, they would reap their reward in glory.

Delivering the Easter sermon at St. George's Cathedral, Makgoba says that unless politicians stop playing games, several countries are headed for crises. South African Anglican Archbishop of Cape ...