by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jul 9, 2015 | News
“The Baptist Olympics.” Spectacle and pageantry. It’s a striking image, summoned by Joel Gregory, to characterize the upcoming Baptist World Congress in Durban, South Africa. Gregory, who holds the George W. Truett Endowed Chair in Preaching and...
by Joel Gregory | Mar 20, 2014 | Opinion
I have learned many lessons over my past 50 years of preaching. Here are seven of the most important: 1. Confine the sermon to a text; limitation sponsors power. Water limited to the sluice of a hydroelectric generator turns the blades that create the power. Air...
by Joel Gregory | Mar 17, 2009 | Opinion
George Arthur Buttrick, the legendary Presbyterian preacher of the 20th century, insisted that all preaching is venue specific. Indeed it is. The day I preached the Southern Baptist Convention annual sermon in downtown San Antonio in June 1988, recalls a painfully...
by Bob Allen | Jul 29, 2005 | News
Joel Gregory, a two-time Baylor graduate best known among Baptists as successor to legendary pastor W.A. Criswell at First Baptist Church in Dallas, is returning to the campus in Waco, Texas, as professor of preaching at the university’s George W. Truett...
