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How Do You Keep Preaching When Nobody’s Listening?

Jerry E. Oswalt

The scene is a small farm in south Alabama sometime in the late 1940's. The farm house is situated on a knoll about 100 yards from the gravel road that runs through the country community. Behind the house and u... Continue Reading...

Continuing Education is Essential Tool for Effective Preaching

Michael Duduit

Even though 1992 is a tough year for many businesses across the nation, there's one thing that continues to receive increased funding each year: training and continuing education programs. This year alone, corp... Continue Reading...

Reconsidering the Funeral Sermon

J. Timothy Allen

One of the most painful yet intensely gratifying tasks of the minister is to be involved in the planning and delivery of the funeral sermon. It is painful because of the deep amount of work involved in guiding ... Continue Reading...

A Penny for Your Thoughts …. No, Make That $1.95 per Minute

Michael Duduit

Now that the Supreme Court has lowered the gavel on "Dial-a-Porn" 900-number telephone services, all those vacant phone lines will be available for other, more productive uses. Like preaching.The Pope got thing... Continue Reading...

Paul Ehrman Scherer: Confronting Man with God’s Word

Preaching.com

Paul Scherer was born at Mount Holly Springs, Pennsylvania, on June 22, 1892. He graduated from the College of Charleston in South Carolina in 1911, and from the Mount Airy Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, in 1916. He was ordained to the ministry of the Lutheran Church in 1916.

Dying for Change: An Interview with Leith Anderson

Albert Mohler

Suburban Minneapolis is not known as a hot-bed of radicalism -- religious or otherwise. But Leith Anderson, whose very name evokes a memory of the area's northern European heritage, says that the church is lit... Continue Reading...

Back to the Future: Preaching into the Third Millennium

Craig A. Loscalzo

In less than eight years we will break into the third millennium. Apocalyptic fervor and fever loom on the horizon. Books reminiscent of The Late Great Planet Earth will flood the secular and religious market. ... Continue Reading...

The Use of Scriptures in the Evangelistic Preaching of Billy Graham

Lewis Drummond

Earl Ferguson has defined a sermon as "the length and shadow of a man." Joseph Sittler, in a similar vein, tells us "Preaching is not merely something a preacher does, it is the function of his whole existence.... Continue Reading...

Preaching During the Interim

Richard L. Morgan

The growing number of churches that face long intervals between installed pastors has called into being the role of the "Interim Pastor." Since the early 1970s when the Alban Institute in Washington, D.C. began... Continue Reading...

No Delivery on Sunday

Kenneth Bolton

No mail is delivered on Sunday. We don't expect it and can manage without it. There is a delivery we do expect on Sunday though, and it is one which we all need. It is a message from God to His people. The non-... Continue Reading...