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Are you preparing your sermon for next Sunday or for eternity? An old story tells about an aged street evangelist who preached on Matthew 22:13:...

Natural evil comes without a moral agent. A hurricane ravages, a tower falls, an earthquake shakes, a tornado destroys, a spider bites, a disease...

Burnout reveals itself in several ways. In coping with the stress of pastoring, some preachers have become reclusive and withdrawn. As soon as they...

The mainline Protestant denominations continue to debate the question of homosexuality in extended and excruciatingly inconclusive controversy. In...

Even early church fathers acknowledged that in doing the good work of the ministry, pastors sometimes neglected one of their most important duties:...

Author and television producer David Murrow says that 90 percent of American men believe in God and five out of six call themselves Christian, only...

You don't have to be in the spotlight to have God use you in powerful ways. You can follow T.W. Wilson's model of influencing all the people you...

Starting with a documentary ("Beyond the Gates of Splendor") and culminating in a feature film in January ("End of the Spear"), producer Mart...

Our enemy has carpet-bombed us with lust, and we’ve allowed them to take a lot of our territory. They’re holding thousands of broken men, women,...

Jesus realized the power of telling stories when He taught and communicated with others. Using illustrations is just as powerful today. We live in...

When the ELCA General Assembly convenes next week in Orlando, the denomination will decide whether to allow bishops and synods to make exceptions...

God doesn’t say that we aren’t to have material goods, but He makes it clear that we are stewards of what He gives us. Pastors often preach against...

Successful youth ministries – efforts that transform students’ lives for the better – also impact the future in powerful ways. Your work leading a...

Headship means leadership and authority—both in the New Testament and in secular Greek. But the leadership that takes its pattern from the...

Fathers, we need to be intentional about building a close connection with our sons and giving them a healthy model of what it means to be a boy, a...