Category - Preaching Resources

(A view of present-day Herrnhut, Germany from the Huttberg) What August 13, 1727, Means for August 13, 2023 By Bishop Chris Giesler   Preaching Text: John 17:1-2, 6-19 What follows is less a sermon and more the sharing of a story...

(Rice seeds being distributed in the Rio Coco in Nicaragua) What is Your Hunger? What is Your Gift? by Bishop Chris Giesler Preaching Text: Matthew 14:13-21 If you back up from the verses assigned for today to the beginning of...

Blessed Are the Small Things Preaching Text: Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52 Can you imagine taking $15,000 (which is a lot of money), and using that to erase over three million dollars of medical debt?  That is a huge boatload of money...

(Seeds being delivered to the flood-ravaged Rio Coco area of Nicaragua) The Extravagant Sower by Bishop Chris Giesler Preaching Text: Matthew 11:1-9, 18-23 Jesus does the work for the preacher in this week’s text. He gives us the...

(A John Deere tractor donated by Moravians in North Dakota helping the farmers in Honduras) The Good Seed and the Weeds, Only God Knows for Sure by Bishop Chris Giesler Preaching Text: Matthew 13:24-30, 36-43 Last week in Matthew...

(Mission Camp participants helping to install a handicap ramp in rural Appalachia) For the Good of Others by Bishop Chris Giesler Preaching Text: Matthew 11:16-19, 18-23 If Jesus had acted in his own self-interest, following his...

(Villagers in Tum Tum Tara, Honduras, are given a water filter, a bucket, and instruction how to have clean water in their homes) It’s As Simple as A Cup of Water by Bishop Chris Giesler Preaching Text:  Matthew 10:40-42 It...

Where is the Focus of our Lives? by Bishop Chris Giesler Preaching Text: Matthew 10:24-39 This is a very difficult text from which to fashion a sermon, but one well worth the effort of working with.  To begin with, this appears...

Instructions for Disciples by Bishop Chris Giesler Preaching Text: Matthew 9:35-10:23 Not long ago, I was invited to one of those paint parties where you go with your friends to an art studio, and everybody in the group is...

(BWM and British Mission Board members are welcomed with open arms in Arusha, Tanzania) No Outsiders Here! By Bishop Chris Giesler Preaching Text: Matthew 9:9-13, 18-26 A tax collector, a synagogue leader who has just lost his...