Trauma-Informed Preaching

In our churches today, we preach to congregations where people are carrying untold burdens — personal pain, communal grief, generational wounds, every type of trauma. The pulpit is not immune to these realities either. Preachers bring their own scars, questions, and unresolved tensions into the sacred task of proclamation.

Knowing this, how do we preach in a way that acknowledges trauma without re-opening wounds?

How can our sermons participate in healing without bypassing the brokenness?