Wed, Sep 03
|Zoom Workshop
Preparing to Preach Advent 2025
Chip Hardwick, Executive, The Synod of the Covenant
Time & Location
Sep 03, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Zoom Workshop
About the event
Advent gives preachers the opportunity to reorient listeners’ Decembers around the promise and hope of the Gospel, and away from the consumerism which can be such a distraction from Christ’s coming. Advent gives preachers the chance to focus listeners on the second coming of Christ as well as the birth of the baby Jesus in a manger. Advent gives preachers a time to mix the joy of the carols with the season depression which too often secretly hits our listeners. This workshop will explore dozens of themes for potential preaching sermons and also give participants a chance to brainstorm together about the Lectionary texts for the season.
Chip earned his Ph.D. in homiletics (preaching) at Princeton Theological Seminary, helping to teach courses in both Preaching and Worship. He has served as the regular preacher at churches in Bloomington, IL, and Lake Forest, IL. He is the…