PreachingWriting God’s Trombones: Robert Smith Jr. and the Impact of Black Preaching Why Study Black Preaching? The African American pulpit has long been a place of theological…Bret HammondFebruary 25, 2025
PreachingWriting God’s Trombones: The Power of Storytelling in Black Preaching Storytelling as a Distinctive of Black Preaching In his book, The Heart of Black Preaching,…Bret HammondFebruary 16, 2025
PreachingWriting God’s Trombones: From Harry Hoosier to Gardner C. Taylor God's Trombones: Celebrating Black Preaching in America is a four-part small group study focusing on…Bret HammondFebruary 12, 2025
PreachingWriting God’s Trombones: Celebrating Black Preaching in America The Voice of a Trombone "He strode the pulpit up and down in what…Bret HammondFebruary 7, 2025
MinistryPreachingWriting Retreading a Sermon Repreach? Repeat? Rerun? Or Retread? When I first started preaching, the thought of re-preaching an…Bret HammondSeptember 9, 2024
DevotionalWriting The Keys to Prayer Where are your keys? Do you know where they are right now?My keys go in…Bret HammondNovember 28, 2023
FeaturedWriting Jesus Cleansing the Temple Does Not Excuse Your Lousy Temper What if Jesus isn’t flying off the handle while cleansing the temple? What if there’s…Bret HammondFebruary 27, 2022
Writing Reveal Yourself to Me Should we randomly open our Bible and ask God, "reveal yourself to me?" If we…Bret HammondMay 6, 2021
DevotionalWriting What I Learned from a Broken Dog Trixie was a great dog, but she was broken. The only problem was, she seemed…Bret HammondMarch 26, 2021
MinistryWriting Masks and Mourning: Following Jesus Through 2020 He sent messengers ahead of him, who went and entered a village of the Samaritans,…Bret HammondJune 22, 2020