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Today’s meditation comes from the a song that was released when I was three years old. Fifty-two years after The Platters released the song they...

Should the Sunday morning sermon be designed primarily to reach lost people or teach Christians?

A friend asked me for some advice about how to speak at a funeral for someone you don’t know. Here are a few things you can say with certainty:

We have just posted a new sermon on the Keep Believing website called God Has a Bigger Plan. Here’s an excerpt:

Last winter I was killing time at Baton Rouge Airport before heading home. The airport is designed with a large central glass dome and some trees...

A friend's e-mail ended with this statement: "God is God, good, and great." I was struck at once by their simplicity and profundity. How much truth...

A young man just starting out in the ministry wants to know about preaching from a manuscript. Here are a few thoughts--and I welcome your feedback...

Recently a fellow pastor asked Brian Bill where he gets his sermon illustrations. I found his answer illuminating and encouraging.

Imagine a website that encourages plastic surgery and extreme dieting in the search for the perfect figure. Not hard to imagine, right? Now...

How can you be cured if you don’t know the disease? I understand that many of us (present company included) were damaged by a legalistic and...

Forty years ago today Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, TN. This morning’s Tupelo Daily Journal contains two articles relating...

My bride and her female co-conspirators often forward silly e-mails that point out the unique qualities of men. My only defense is that the grey...

Media mogul Ted Turner has been well known for his jaundiced view of the Church. Now, it appears that Ted could be turning the corner back to...

The last forty years has witnessed the eclipse of the traditional family. In 1960, only one child in ten lived in a home without both biological...

*Editor’s Note: This was first distributed in March of 2005, and has been re-issued on or near Good Friday since that first release. good...