Laity Lodge Announces New Leadership

The H. E. Butt Foundation has named The Rev. Dr. Mark D. Roberts senior director and scholar-in-residence and Steven D. Purcell as director of Laity Lodge.

Pastors and Pay

Here's a surprise to no one: church income and pastoral salaries have a strong correlation.

The 3:00 AM Test

In a discussion about expository preaching with PreachingTodaySermons.com, Bryan Chapell explains the 3:00 an test, and why it matters to preachers:

Leaders and Followers

It was a cool fall Sunday morning in 1865. A black man, slight of build, entered a fashionable Virginia church in downtown Richmond. The ushers made themselves busy with narthex projects and acted as though they did not notice him...

Henry Allan Ironside: Expositor of the Word

My introduction to the expositions of H. A. Ironside (1876-1951) came in my 17th summer. Working in Texas and Arkansas away from family and friends, I spent considerable time reading. One afternoon I visited a Christian bookstore and selected Ironside's Expositions in Joshua...

Preaching and the House Church Movement

House Church. For pastors, the mere term once conjured up images of angry men and women gathered around a kitchen table, condemning the mis­takes and failures of the traditional church they had left for one reason or another...

Silence in an iPod World

On September 22, Marcel Marceau, the famous mime, died at the age of 84. Marceau was an expressive artist who could make us believe he was climbing stairs when there were none, and press his hands against a pane of glass that wasn't there, and lean into a wind that wasn't blowing.