Prayer

USA Today recently discovered that people find prayer as effective as drugs for the relief of pain. The survey was sponsored by USA Today, ABC News and the Stanford Medical Center. The bottom line is that more than half the respondents to the poll said they used prayer to...

Persistence

The "Chicken Soup For The Soul" series has been an unqualified success. It has generated over eighty best-sellers. The first book alone sold eight million copies. The "chicken soup" trademark has been transferred to other products including greeting cards and a television show. It was not so easy, however, to...

Parenting

News reports recently told the story of a nine-year-old San Diego boy who took over at the wheel of his family car and got caught driving it. In some ways, however, the boy was a hero. He took the wheel because his father was too drunk to...

Memories

College professor and business speaker Steve Boyd tells of getting into a cab to get from the airport to downtown Chicago. He noticed that the cab was immaculate and complimented the cab driver. As they talked together, the cab driver asked Boyd if he remembered Sam Cooke. Boyd replied...

Humility

In his newest book, The Eighth Habit, Stephen Covey reports that what the inventor and innovator, Buckminster Fuller wanted on his epitaph. Fuller said that his tombstone should read, "Just a trim tab." What in the world did he mean by that? A trim tab is a small...

Happiness

I'm sure we all continue to miss Charles Schulz and the wonderful messages he taught through his characters in Peanuts. There is an old Peanuts strip that shows Charlie Brown and Schroeder walking and in a deep discussion. Schroeder asks, "Is Snoopy a hunting dog?" "I guess he...

Talking Preaching: The Nation’s Premier Preachers

The very first Preaching magazine interview appeared in the September-October 1986 issue, our second year of publication. It was an interview with David Allen Hubbard, then President of Fuller Theological Seminary. Then came interviews with Fred Craddock, John R.W. Stott, John...

Things I’ve learned In The Past Twenty Years

The process of assembling this 20th anniversary issue of Preaching has been an enjoyable yet challenging process. It's been fun to dig back through many of the 120 past issues we've produced since 1985 - to read the old interviews, sermons, and articles. I've even read through some of ...

Moving By Faith

Joshua 3:1-17 Transitional moments come with growing up: the changes from childhood to adolescence, adolescence to adulthood. At other times these transitions are artificial. The ages of 16, 40, and 65 have significant implications. Transitional moments can be forced upon people - divorce, relocation, early...