Five Things You Need to Know About Preaching Through the Books of Scripture

Many pastors are intimidated by the thought of preaching all the way through an entire book of the Bible. Some fear that congregational excitement will be hard to sustain and that pastor and congregation will get bogged down in an extended series on a single book. Others may want to avoid the stereotype of the tired old expositor relentlessly trudging through questions of grammar and syntactical constructions. Many may even perceive the method as outdated.

Preaching Gone Green: Why Pastors Should Address Creation Care

One might think that the church would improve in light of recent environmental problems. Today, more than a billion people worldwide lack access to safe drinking water; entire species are being driven to oblivion at rates more than one hundred times faster than natural extinction; air pollution has produced record high childhood asthma rates in many U.S. cities; toxic levels of mercury appear in the fetal cord blood of one out of six newborns; and the treatment of animals in factory farms continues to challenge our civilized sensibilities.

Preaching in Romans: An Interview with Chuck Swindoll

Charles Swindoll is one of the best-known Christian preachers and teachers in America, and his work has influenced countless preachers. The voice of the "Insight for Living" radio program, he is the Senior Pastor of Stonebriar Community Church in Frisco (suburban Dallas), Texas, and Chancellor of Dallas Technological Seminary. Chuck is author of more than 70 books, including his newest volume which launches a series on New Testament texts. The release of that new series prompted this, our third Preaching magazine interview with Chuck.

Back Page Pulpit: The Ones that Weren’t

This issue marks the completion of 25 years of publication. During those 25 years, we've had lots of great articles, interviews and sermons; but I am thinking not of the articles that have appeared, but of all those interesting articles and sermons we never had a chance to publish.

Big-Time Leaders Have Small-Sized Egos

Great leaders are gratified by the achievements of others. All good leaders realize that they themselves never can accomplish all they dream about; others must help carry out their vision. So they invest, encourage, train and enable them to succeed. The best leaders realize there's plenty of success to go around, and they help those around them reach for the stars.