• Evangelistic Preaching Helps for September 20, 2009 — The Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost, Year B
  In Jesus' day, children were considered "socially invisible" or "other." Who occupies the category of "other" today?

• Evangelistic Preaching Helps for the Ninth Sunday After Pentecost, Year B (August 2, 2009): Ministry Gifts — Who Needs Them?
  The fourth chapter of Ephesians contains Paul's oft quoted list of ministry gifts, sometimes referred to as the "five-fold ministry gifts": Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Pastors, Teachers.

• Evangelistic Preaching Helps for February 1, 2009 -- The Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany, Year B
  How can we be channels for the living, authoritative word of Jesus Christ today?

• Evangelistic Preaching Helps for Laity Sunday (October 19, 2008 — Twenty-Third Sunday After Pentecost, Year A)
  Evangelism Preaching Helps is an online resource designed as an aid to assist in the preparation of sermons with an evangelistic focus. Evangelistic Preaching Helps addresses three audiences: Christian, pre-Christian and de-churched.

• Evangelistic Preaching Helps for September 14, 2008 — Eighteenth Sunday After Pentecost, Year A
  Can we, as Paul urged, learn to be hospitable toward one another despite having differences of opinions about religious practices?

• Evangelistic Preaching Helps for September 7, 2008 — Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost, Year A
  

• Evangelistic Preaching Helps for August 31, 2008 — Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost, Year A
  The focus of this week's passage is new life in Christ. This new life in Christ displays genuine love, without hypocrisy.

• Evangelistic Preaching Helps for August 24, 2008 — Fifteenth Sunday After Pentecost, Year A
  This week's reading focuses on the transformation of character.

• Evangelistic Preaching Helps for August 17, 2008 — Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost, Year A
  This week's passage advances several key points: (1) God never gives up on us, even when we reject the gospel message. (2) Salvation is a gift; no one should boast that personal achievement warranted salvation. (3) Paul's love for Israel translates into perpetual ...

• Evangelistic Preaching Helps for August 10, 2008 — Thirteenth Sunday Sunday After Pentecost, Year A
  And how are they to proclaim him unless they are sent? As it is written, "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!" (Romans 10:15)

• Evangelistic Preaching Helps for August 3, 2008 — Twelfth Sunday After Pentecost, Year A
  It is vitally important to note the heart-wrenching tone of Paul's writing in chapter 9.

• Evangelistic Preaching Helps for July 27, 2008 — Eleventh Sunday After Pentecost, Year A
  "Neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord."

• Evangelistic Preaching Helps for July 20, 2008 — Tenth Sunday After Pentecost, Year A
  God adopts the Christian into the family of God. The adopted Christian has a new life and is a joint heir with Christ. This inheritance includes both suffering and glory.

• Evangelistic Preaching Helps for July 13, 2008 — Ninth Sunday After Pentecost, Year A
  The focus of this week's passage is life: life through Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. Choice, following the way of the Spirit, is necessary to access this new life.

• Evangelistic Preaching Helps for July 6, 2008 — Eighth Sunday After Pentecost, Year A
  Contemporary scholars note that this passage is NOT an autobiographical outline of Paul's presumed pre-conversion despair about sin.

• Evangelistic Preaching Helps for June 29, 2008 — Seventh Sunday After Pentecost, Year A
  To embrace the liberty afforded by faith in Christ to the neglect of obedience to God's righteousness is to consider only half the story.

• Evangelistic Preaching Helps for June 22, 2008 — Sixth Sunday After Pentecost, Year A
  Paul needed to confront an illogical argument of the day. In Romans 5:20-21, Paul mentions that where sin abounds, grace "superabounds." Some people believed that continuing in sin brought about a greater abundance of God's grace. Apparently people must have ...

• Evangelistic Preaching Helps for June 15, 2008 — Fifth Sunday After Pentecost, Year A
  In this week's passage from Romans, Paul explores the past, present, and future impact of justification.

• Evangelistic Preaching Helps for June 8, 2008 — Fourth Sunday After Pentecost, Year A
  God's righteousness (the grand theme of Romans) is demonstrated by God's faithfulness to the promises God made to Israel.

• Evangelistic Preaching Helps for June 1, 2008 -- Third Sunday After Pentecost, Year A
  How would you use this week's Lectionary texts to revive and renew existing church members? What texts would you use when preaching to pre-Christians and de-churched (church dropouts, inactive church members) people?

• Evangelistic Preaching Helps for May 18, 2008 -- Trinity Sunday, Year A
(Peace with Justice Sunday; Aldersgate Sunday/Heritage Sunday)
  "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit."

• Evangelistic Preaching Helps: This Lenten Season, Find Your Macedonia
  Where is your Macedonia? It's one step beyond your comfort zone.

• Evangelistic Preaching Helps: Preaching in Advent — What Do We Do in the In-Between Time?
  As December approaches, our thoughts and hearts turn toward Christmas. Children count down the days, and the social calendars of adults are filled. It's a tough time. Children face the challenge of keeping their minds on school while songs of the season ...

• Evangelistic Preaching Helps: Plan Easter for C.M.E. People
  "I used to be a C.M.E. Christian — you know, I attended church on Christmas, Mother's Day, and Easter." Is your church ready for C.M.E. people?

• Evangelistic Preaching Helps: Preparing for the Lenten Season
  This year, Lent begins March 1 with Ash Wednesday. With some prayer, forethought, and preparation, Lent can be a time of tremendous spiritual renewal.

• Evangelistic Preaching Helps for December 24/25, 2005 — Christmas Eve or Christmas Day
  The arrival of God from the cosmos onto the earth shows God's personal interest in the plight of humanity. The existence of a relational God remains relevant to us today.

• Evangelistic Preaching Helps for November 24, 2005— Thanksgiving Day
  Remember the hungry on this day that is known both for eating and for giving thanks.

• The Evangelistic Impact of Heritage Sunday
  Heritage Sunday provides a grand opportunity for all Wesleyan communions to remember and reclaim their evangelistic heritage.

• Evangelistic Preaching Helps for May 15, 2005 — Day of Pentecost, Year A
  This page was developed by Kwasi Kena, Director of Evangelism Ministries for the General Board of Discipleship.