Out of one thousand books written each year, six hundred and fifty are forgotten by the end of a year. At the end of three years, one hundred fifty more have slipped from memory. Only fifty books survive as man... Continue Reading...
New Providence, New Jersey is a long way from Irvine, California -- and not just in terms of geography. Ben Patterson recently made that move and shifted the focus of his preaching ministry from Southern Califo... Continue Reading...
When I became an ordained minister, I preached from a full manuscript. I wanted to deliver each sentence exactly as I typed it in my study. This method of sermon delivery forced me to read my sermons to my cong... Continue Reading...
It's not often I stay up late enough to watch David Letterman on television, since he comes on at 12:30 a.m. and I'm usually dead-to-the-world long before.Sometimes, however, I stay up later than usual (normall... Continue Reading...
This year we celebrate the centenary of John Henry Newman's death. The new ecumenical interest in Newman has centered largely in his parochial preaching in sermons he first gave as an Anglican and reissued as a... Continue Reading...
During the 1990 National Conference on Preaching in Atlanta, well over half the attendees indicated they are currently using a personal computer (or PC) in their churches.While most computers entered the church... Continue Reading...
The Thompsons made a promise to their kids. "If the weather is good this weekend, we'll take you to the zoo after church." Saturday evening they turn on the news in hopes of a Sunday outing. The veteran weather... Continue Reading...
There's nothing that'll humble you faster than looking over your old sermons.Like lots of preachers I know, my life in the pulpit began while I was still in high school. First came preaching for Youth Week -- t... Continue Reading...
Clarence E. Macartney was born at Northwood, Ohio in 1879. He studied at Pomona College, the University of Wisconsin and Princeton Seminary. He was pastor of these downtown churches: the First Presbyterian Chur... Continue Reading...
An old Texas preacher once told me that when he stood before his congregation to preach they looked to him like hooting owls sitting on tombstones. I had no difficulty imagining these poor people sitting in the... Continue Reading...