Restoration: Wounded Men? (John 21)
Today various factors are conspiring to exacerbate the wound and keep men from finding the way through the wilderness.
The 1995 Survey of Computer Software & Resources for Preachers
There is an old Chinese proverb which I use to remind my clients about prognostication. It goes like this: Making predictions is very difficult, especially when they are about the future.Two years ago, when I w... Continue Reading...
Preaching and Praise: From Monotony to Doxology!
There's a story about a church that had trouble getting Sunday morning, worship to take off into joyous celebration. Things were so bad at that church that the preacher and congregation could not have conspired... Continue Reading...
Jesus Christ: Not I, But Christ (Galatians 2:20)
Jesus Christ: Not I, But Christ (Galatians 2:20)
The Crisis in Expository Preaching Today
Some think that it was inevitable that we should have experienced a crisis in expository preaching, if not in all preaching, since that had been the pattern in most other theological disciplines in recent years... Continue Reading...
God Provides Resources
Lewis' is a large department store in Birmingham, England. Some years ago, the store wanted to expand, and one of their projected building areas held a Friends Meeting House, a small Quaker chapel. A representative of Lewis' sent a letter to the Quaker congregation, saying, "Dear sirs. We wish to extend our premises. We...
Destructive Pride
A young seminary graduate was called to his first church. That first Sunday, he entered the church proudly, with head held high. As he began the sermon, however, things seemed to go terribly wrong. He stumbled over words, lost his train of thought time and again, and altogether made a royal mess of the sermon. At the...
The Power Of Love
In his book Chicken Soup for the Soul, Eric Butterworth tells of a college sociology class that was sent into the Baltimore slums to take case histories of 200 young boys. The students were required to write an evaluation of each boy's projected future, and in virtually every case, they wrote, "He hasn't got a chance." Some...