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When I'm on-site for a church consultation, I conduct interviews with a sampling of the members. I am often not at the church for a worship service and am frequently asked, "How can you consult our church and g... Continue Reading...

The scene is too typical. The pastor nervously stands up at the end of a Sunday morning service. He reads his resignation letter to the congregation. Two weeks later, he is gone completely. Left in the wake is ... Continue Reading...

I hesitated at first, but reality told me we live in the video age. So now I tease my friend, "What movie are you preaching this Sunday?"

During the past several weeks I have been discovering a whole new world with its own language: bits and browsers, ftp's and domains, links and listservs. Preaching has now entered the World Wide Web, and all th... Continue Reading...

Grady Nutt, the late great "Prime Minister of Humor," was sometimes accosted by persons who failed to appreciate his humor-spiced messages. "Do you really think you should be doing that?" they would ask. "I mea... Continue Reading...

The past year has witnessed the publication of a number of excellent books about preaching. Nevertheless, one title clearly promises to become a standard reference for preachers over the years to come, and that... Continue Reading...

Books, said James Russell Lowell, "are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind." If this be so, then the past year has seen an entire swarm of books released for purposes of cross-po... Continue Reading...

We preachers very often find ourselves up against the necessity of preaching a topical sermon about one of the difficult and yet pressing issues of the day. Take the issue of abortion, for example. Few of us da... Continue Reading...

O.S. Hawkins is pastor of the largest congregation in the nation's largest Protestant denomination. Since 1993 he has been pastor of the First Baptist Church of Dallas, Texas -- a congregation known not only as... Continue Reading...