Troy E. Medlin

Twelve Virtues

Preaching & Worship

“Before sermons emerge in the preaching moment, they must first crack open new life and space in the preacher. The most powerful sermons come from the wrestling of the one giving the sermon—wrestling with the text, the historical context, our own complicated experiences, our honest questions, communities searching for a way forward, and even with God’s own self. One of the gifts of this collection of sermons is permission—permission to wrestle with hard questions, serious scholarship, and counter the rising tide of Christian nationalism. What begins to emerge on these pages are examples of sermons that model a different kind of Christianity—one that gives permission to center the virtues that mirror what we pray when we plead, ‘Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.’”