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Storms Blow in that our Prayers May Go Up
Storms--real one, metaphoric ones, personal ones, national ones--drive us to prayer and to God like nothing else.
Follow God’s Lead
Preachers rarely help their cause when they insist on generalizing and comparing each other.
Indescribable Love! Indispensable Virtue!
Did you hear about the preacher who, mounting the pulpit, declared, "I have here the most amazing sermon on being humble that has ever been prepared and, frankly, I am not sure that you are worthy to hear it!"
Preaching Without Walls: An Interview with Ralph Douglas West
Ralph Douglas West is the founding pastor of The Church Without Walls (Brookhollow Baptist Church) in Houston.
?Giving Voice to the Bible: Expository Scripture Reading
We seem to go into a funereal singsong pattern when we read God's Word. That style communicates boredom more than belief.
It’s All in How You Tell It
In storytelling, it makes a difference how you tell it.
Preaching Through Their Defenses: An Interview with John Ortberg
Since 2003, John Ortberg has served as senior pastor of the Menlo Park Presbyterian Church in Menlo Park, California.
Building Dedication: A Place with Purpose (2 Chronicles 6:24-31; 7:12-14)
What God told Solomon in response to his prayer of dedication was that the temple was a place with a very clear purpose.
Jackals Among Ruins
We might call jackals by more personal names like Joseph Smith, Mary Baker Eddy, Charles Taze Russell or Jim Jones. And this would be right, I think. But could such religious beasts arise from our kind?