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The Bullet That Broke a Preacher’s Heart<br/>How America’s Preeminent Pastoral Evangelist Found Pulpit Power

Craig Skinner

Many believe that the greatest address George W. Truett ever delivered was in May, 1920, when he preached from the steps of the United States Capitol in Washington D. C. where many U.S. Presidents have delivere... Continue Reading...

How to Land the Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

We live in a rather quiet neighborhood where nothing big ever seems to happen. At least so it seemed until several weeks ago when we became front page news! A small plane crashed into a house down the street fr... Continue Reading...

Bringing the Truth to Bear on Our World

David Henderson

Every time we refer to the Bible, whether preaching before a congregation of familiar faces or citing a passage from memory in a conversation with an unchurched friend, we have one goal: to gain a hearing. What... Continue Reading...

A Preaching Journey

Ryan Ahlgrim

Listening to sermons has always bored me -- during my childhood, my adolescence, and even now during my adulthood. For the first five minutes I'm usually able to stay focused on the preacher, but then my mind i... Continue Reading...

To Pax or to Preach?

Michael Duduit

There aren't too many things that really, really annoy me. It takes a real blunder to get my juices cooking -- like a beautiful sirloin steak that's been charred, or a spill I made on the carpet while explainin... Continue Reading...

Tom, Tom, The Piper’s Son<br/>The Forgotten Story of Thomas: Preacher Son Of the Famous Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Craig Skinner

Although October 19, 1880 was a typically hot spring Sunday in Sydney yet, at 3.p.m. despite the heat, the Theater Royal crowded out with hundreds of Australians rushing in to the young preacher who bore the il... Continue Reading...

Preaching to the Unchurched: An Interview with James Emory White

Michael Duduit

James Emory White is founding pastor of Mecklenburg Community Church in Charlotte, NC -- one of the fastest-growing churches in the nation. Using Willow Creek Community Church as a model, White's pastoral initi... Continue Reading...

A Word Lit by Fire

Mark Barger Elliott

Is it only me or has your homiletical junk mail increased?Every day a bundle of brochures pitching quick fixes lands in my mailbox. But when I ask colleagues if these new approaches have had any affect on the w... Continue Reading...

The Work of the Evangelist<br/>2 Timothy 4:1-5

Jerry Drace

When you hear or read the word "evangelist" what comes to mind? Do you think of Paul, Apollos and Timothy or Bakker, Swaggart and Triton? Do the words honesty, integrity and sincerity come to mind or do you thi... Continue Reading...

Confessions of a ‘book guy’

Michael Duduit

I'll never forget the time I was in a Christian bookstore in Jacksonville, Florida. I was browsing around and lusting after various volumes when the clerk came up to me and said, "Are you a book guy?"Well, that... Continue Reading...