I have visited many parts of the world in which the challenges to the 21st-century pulpit look rather different. So part of the purpose of the rest of this essay is modest: to stimulate thinking that will help others flesh out this list and modify it for different cultural locations.

In a culture that so often rewards the proud ? a world quick to applaud the prideful and eager to bestow the label "great" on these same individuals ? humility occasionally attracts some surprising attention.

To read the Bible "theologically" means to read the Bible "with a focus on God."

To this day, people who won't read a Bible or won't read other Christian literature will pick up "Mere Christianity" and find themselves engaged by the acute mental processes of C.S. Lewis.

Jesus is concerned to give assurance to those of us who would read the Gospel of John in the 21st century.

How is the teacher or preacher to remain Christ-centered?