Looking for ways to breathe new life into your Advent and Christmas season preaching? Join us for this workshop with Anna Carter Florence and Jake Myers from Columbia Theological Seminary, as we explore the upcoming lectionary texts together. We’ll discover some new strategies for reading Scripture that are easy to grasp and easy to adapt to your context. We’ll move from text to sermon, as we consider what the familiar stories might have to say to us this year. We’ll talk about some images of the preacher to spur thought and conversation. And we’ll share roundtable conversation about how the light of the world might be illuminating our own congregations and our own lives, as preachers. Sponsored by the CTS Preachers’ Studio for Renewal, this 2-day event will be a lively and energizing deep dive into Scripture and your own preaching ministry.
An Advent and Christmas Season Preaching Workshop
Friday, November 6 and Saturday, November 7, 2026
at Westlake Hills Presbyterian Church
Cost: $40.00 (includes a book, meals & two sessions)
Anna Carter Florence is the Peter Marshall Professor of Preaching, and Jake Myers is the Wade P. Huie, Jr. Associate Professor of Homiletics, at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, GA.
This workshop is brought to you by the Faithful Preaching Project and Columbia Preachers Studio for Renewal at Columbia Seminary. Both are funded by Lilly Endowment Compelling Preaching Grants.
