Emphasis Preaching Journal

Before he was the nationally famous chaplain at Yale University, before he was the minister of the great Riverside Presbyterian Church in New York, before he was a well- known activist in the field of peacemaking, William Sloane Coffin Jr. was searching for faith. He described a crucial transition in his faith-journey this way: "Slowly, I found myself changing from the seeker who looks hoping something's there, to the kind who knows something's there, if only he can find it."

We come to worship for different reasons. Some come in doubt, some in certainty, most