Sermons: Live vs. Video?
If you have to watch a sermon on video, despite getting up, getting ready and going to a different physical location known as church, do you feel as if you've been to church?
Your Cat’s New Year Resolutions
If a feline were to make New Year's resolutions...
Illustration: Getting Smart Comes at a Price
Sometimes our most memorable lessons are learned when we catch on the slowest.
Illustration: Grace Found John Newton
Amazing grace found a former slave trader and provoked a sermon for New Year's Day.
The Purpose of Preaching Is Transformation
To be transformed into the likeness of Christ, necessary changes will impact the way we think, feel and comport ourselves.
YouVersion, Series Planning and Learning from Samson: An Interview with Craig Groeschel
Pastor and author Craig Groeschel uses the unlikely biblical characters in preaching to men and says LifeChurch.tv stumbled into success with the YouVersion app.
Back Page Pulpit: Baptizing Reality
Is making a reality show of a preacher's life going to honor...reality?
Expositors Corner: Knowing God
Knowing God and enjoying Him forever should be the aim of our entire lives.
Preaching from a Galaxy Far, Far Away: Appropriating the Star Wars Myth for the Pulpit
The Star Wars saga lends itself to numerous sermon illustrations and teaching points, with which many in your congregation of listeners will be familiar...perhaps more familiar than they are with Scripture.
Archers, Arrows and Targets: Handling Your Critics in Preaching
Criticism is painful, especially when it comes from someone we care about and who we believe cares about us. It's all the more difficult to process when it follows a public action or is directed toward someone in a public role.