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Tens of Thousands of times each year Christian funerals are conducted. Many of these are officiated by well-meaning but less than well-prepared clergymen who have to add yet another activity to an already burge... Continue Reading...

The Christmas season renews our acquaintance with some of the precious songs of the faith, like "O Little Town of Bethlehem." Too few preachers are aware that this favorite carol was written by Phillips Brooks,... Continue Reading...

As president of Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, David Allen Hubbard is involved in the training of hundreds of evangelical preachers. He is himself a popular preacher and lecturer, and is a... Continue Reading...

Why don't we preach like Jesus? Why do so many preaching books fail to refer to our Master Model as the master preaching model?How could we forget Jesus the Preacher? Didn't the people abandon cities and villag... Continue Reading...

The thrust that today's church needs more than anything else is preaching that will keep people awake!More laymen are crying out that they are bored stiff. They can hardly stand those services, yet they feel ob... Continue Reading...

On a recent visit to the American Bible Society headquarters in New York City, I saw a significant item from church history on display there. It was a copy of the famous "Chained Bible."In 1539, the Great Bible... Continue Reading...

The word "crisis" in English means a time when a particular situation must either go on, be reversed, or be changed in a new direction. It is a "decisive moment" or a "turning point" in the course of human exis... Continue Reading...

Before becoming president of the seminary, I helped organize an informal meeting for pastors of large metropolitan churches. Three days each year, we gathered to share experiences and ideas, in what became for ... Continue Reading...

Returning from church one Sunday evening, the elder, in response to his wife's question about the sermon, replied, "Well, Jean, I have just three comments. He read it. He read it badly. And it wasn't worth read... Continue Reading...