https://network.crcna.org/ The Network en Fri, 19 Apr 2024 09:15:00 +0000 Wed, 20 Feb 2019 16:00:34 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/leadership/pastors/losing-religion If you have been involved in most any aspect of ministry in the church, then sooner or later you confront some tough realities. Probably pastors experience this more often—and perhaps more intensely—than do others in church leadership but sooner or later we all learn some hard truths. Scott Hoezee https://network.crcna.org/topic/leadership/pastors/losing-religion Wed, 20 Feb 2019 16:00:34 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/leadership/pastors/preaching/show-dont-tell It is sermon grading season for me as the semester ends so unsurprisingly when I started to ponder a topic for today’s blog, all things homiletical came to mind.   Scott Hoezee https://network.crcna.org/topic/leadership/pastors/preaching/show-dont-tell Wed, 09 May 2018 16:30:02 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/leadership/pastors/preaching/preaching-public Chewed up, spit up, barfed out. Not a few preachers would tell you this is how it feels sometimes after preaching a sermon (and most particularly after enduring various comments at the church door afterwards). Not every week. I hope not. But now and then. Scott Hoezee https://network.crcna.org/topic/leadership/pastors/preaching/preaching-public Wed, 22 Nov 2017 15:56:57 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/leadership/pastors/preaching/must-seminaries-change Last week I spent two days interacting with ten pastors who served as peer group leaders for me last year as part of a Lilly Endowment grant program my Center is overseeing.  The grant is part of Lilly’s current “Initiative to Strengthen Preaching.” This week I will spend Monday evening Scott Hoezee https://network.crcna.org/topic/leadership/pastors/preaching/must-seminaries-change Thu, 17 Mar 2016 10:05:40 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/leadership/pastors/preaching/proclaiming-humility This week I will listen to around 21 student sermons preached in our Seminary’s Chapel. Borrowing a phrase from the Academy of Preachers, I have come to call this annual exercise our Calvin Seminary “Preach-a-Palooza” event. Scott Hoezee https://network.crcna.org/topic/leadership/pastors/preaching/proclaiming-humility Thu, 04 Jun 2015 14:47:15 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/leadership/pastors/preaching/more-those-r-rated-texts Maybe it’s bad form on a running blog like The Twelve to tee up off a prior day’s posting by a colleague, but Rebecca Koerselman’s post yesterday on “Kiddos and the Bible” was too much fun to rea Scott Hoezee https://network.crcna.org/topic/leadership/pastors/preaching/more-those-r-rated-texts Wed, 18 Mar 2015 14:09:28 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/leadership/pastors/pastors-quandary March is Oral Comp season here at Calvin Seminary where I teach. Scott Hoezee https://network.crcna.org/topic/leadership/pastors/pastors-quandary Thu, 05 Mar 2015 13:24:57 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/leadership/pastors/preaching/gracious-residue This blog post will appear on a Tuesday but I am writing it on a Monday morning and so am in a post-Sunday reflective mood when it comes to preaching. Scott Hoezee https://network.crcna.org/topic/leadership/pastors/preaching/gracious-residue Tue, 16 Sep 2014 15:07:17 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/leadership/pastors/preaching/only-something-nice Last week one day I was reviewing some of the audio sermons available in the archive of my Center for Excellence in Preaching website. Scott Hoezee https://network.crcna.org/topic/leadership/pastors/preaching/only-something-nice Tue, 22 Jul 2014 13:16:50 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/leadership/pastors/mardi-gras I grew up in a decidedly non-liturgical tradition in the Christian Reformed Church. Scott Hoezee https://network.crcna.org/topic/leadership/pastors/mardi-gras Thu, 06 Mar 2014 13:25:35 +0000 https://network.crcna.org/topic/leadership/pastors/whats-preacher-do It's difficult for me to believe that it's been now close to 8 years since I left my last congregation as pastor and weekly preacher. Scott Hoezee https://network.crcna.org/topic/leadership/pastors/whats-preacher-do Thu, 18 Apr 2013 10:23:15 +0000