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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...

In my mind there is no more special day in sports than opening day in baseball, the one day these privileged athletes seem to forget they are...

We have just posted a new sermon on the Keep Believing website in the “Surivor Babylon” series called How to be Happy in Babylon. Here’s an...

Haddon Robinson calls irritability a "moral sin." He's right--and we'd all be better off if we called it for what it is and stopped excusing our...

Today I am preparing to attend another funeral. Our friend Nancy lost her fight with cancer and is now at peace with Jesus. Several months ago my...

I did not know that in his autobiography Benjamin Franklin admitted a radical plan. “I once conceived the bold and arduous project of arriving at...

A few foundational issues to keep mind when thinking about the seeker-sensitive approach will be helpful no matter what model is being contemplated...