Friends: No preacher preaches the same sermon twice. Different contexts make for different sermons. A preacher keeps working with a biblical text and the text works with the preacher so the second time around, the sermon will be different.  I preached this sermon, in a studio, a couple of months ago for Jim Somerville’s A Sermon Every Sunday. You can read the manuscript here.

Then, I preached a sermon on the same text on July 4 at First Baptist Asheville.  I thought some of you might like to see how that sermon kept changing and how a different context helped to produce a somewhat different sermon. 

How did the two sermons differ, and if they did, how do you think the context informed those differences?

In a new documentary, Will Willimon puts his preaching toolbox to the test

I had the opportunity to sit down with Yonat Shimron from Religion News Service to keep talking about preaching in reference to the SCETV documentary released earlier this year. Let me know what you think!

I hope you’ll enjoy my first of a series of sermons at First Baptist Church in Asheville, NC!

The Coastal Carolina Presbytery is using my book, Fear of the Other: No Fear in Love to think together (which Presbyterians do so well!) about how to be more welcoming congregations. Here’s the sermon I preached for them on “Welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you.”

Visit the church website for more information about the Festival of Regathering worship schedule and watch the live streamed service at Worship This Week, along with the bulletin, hymns, etc. on the church website. If you’re not in the Asheville area, you can watch the services later at the Worship Links page.

In this documentary “A Will to Preach,” join me as I move through the process of preparing to preach at a church in Salisbury, NC. Included on that webpage is an interview I did in February at Buncombe United Methodist Church in Greenville, SC. Hope you enjoy!

Mark your calendars to tune in to SCETV on May 27, 2021 at 9:30EST to view a documentary on the preaching process thanks to Insight Films of Davidson, NC. You can learn more about the film and the night’s events here.

I did a town hall with the Church of the Brethren entitled “Peacebuilding When We’re So Divided.” You can watch it here.