How does a sermon help people grieve? How does a sermon handle the tragic and unexplained? My questions arise also because of my calling. As a teacher of preachers, how do I join others in helping the next generation navigate the post-everything? The challenge of these questions rouses a preacher’s need to actively depend upon God. Such dependence forces us to face what is perhaps our greatest challenge when standing at the bend. Preachers who desire to cross the bend of a