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Paradox is unsettling. Having pieces of truth scattered across the table without knowing where they fit in the puzzle can be threatening. It is doubly threatening, of course, when others tell us all the pieces ... Continue Reading...

A recent issue of the Washington Post contained an item about an internship program that places National Football League players into congressional internships during the off season.In a recent letter to his fe... Continue Reading...

When Paul wrote to Timothy requesting that he come quickly, he also asked Timothy to bring his books and parchments. Any preacher will understand this urgent request, since books are such an important staple of... Continue Reading...

Probably the two most significant new books in homiletics that were released in 1997 were Mike Graves, The Sermon as Symphony: Preaching the Literary Forms of the New Testament (Judson Press) and the late Lucy ... Continue Reading...

John Maxwell is one of the contemporary church's leading authorities on leadership. For many years a pastor, today Maxwell's ministry focuses on writing and teaching about Christian leadership through his organ... Continue Reading...

Preaching: You have spoken for several Promise Keepers events and been involved with the renewal movement for Christian men. Within the pastoral setting, is it important for preachers to focus their attention o... Continue Reading...

It was a cold, cloudy Sunday morning when I found a note laying on the edge of the church cemetery. Someone had scribbled a message on a half sheet of paper. The message read: "I am lonely and tired, my life is... Continue Reading...

The phrase "Preach the Word" contains both an admonition and a focus. We are called to preach, but that calling has a specific focus: the Word. Authentic Christian preaching is biblically focused and shaped. Pa... Continue Reading...

Good preaching appeals to the senses.Taste. Your mouth waters as you think of the luscious grapes from the vine in Canaan. You taste the fish and the bread when Jesus feeds the five thousand. You taste the bitt... Continue Reading...

I stood with a million men that day as they transformed Washington's Mall into an open-air cathedral of gravel and grass. It was a remarkable experience to be there among so many men who were unabashedly procla... Continue Reading...